Gaylord Shaw
Gaylord Dewayne Shaw | |
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Born | (1942-07-22)July 22, 1942 El Reno, Oklahoma |
Died | September 6, 2015(2015-09-06) (aged 73) Duncan, Oklahoma |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Journalist |
Known for | Winning a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1978 and breaking the news of President Richard Nixon's resignation |
Gaylord Dewayne Shaw (July 22, 1942 – September 6, 2015) was an American journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1978.
Early life and education
Shaw was born on July 22, 1942, in El Reno, Oklahoma.[1][2] He attended Cameron College from 1960 to 1962 and the University of Oklahoma from 1962 to 1964.[3]
Journalism career
While in college, Shaw began his journalism career as a police reporter for the Constitution-Press in Lawton.[3] In 1962, at the age of twenty, he joined the Associated Press's Oklahoma City bureau.[1][3] In 1966, he joined the Associated Press's Washington, D.C. office to work as a deskman, and from 1967 to 1971 he was a member of an Associated Press special assignment team focused mainly on investigative reporting.[3] In March 1975, he began working for the Los Angeles Times in their Washington bureau.[3] In 1978, he won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series of articles he wrote for the Los Angeles Times about unsafe dams across the United States.[1][2] He has also been credited with breaking the news that President Richard Nixon was going to resign.[1] He earned the 1980 Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers for coverage of the U.S. energy crisis.[4][5] In 1988, he joined Newsday as their Washington bureau chief, where he oversaw a Pulitzer Prize-winning story about the Persian Gulf War in 1991.[2] In 1997, he was part of a large team of reporters that won another Pulitzer Prize for a story about the crash of TWA Flight 800, for spot news reporting.[1][2] He retired in 2002.[1]
Death
Shaw died on September 6, 2015, in Duncan, Oklahoma; his family members suspect he died from a heart attack.[6]
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Gaylord D. Shaw, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter, Dies at 73". New York Times. Associated Press. 10 September 2015. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
- ^ a b c d Phelps, Timothy M. (9 September 2015). "Gaylord Shaw dies at 73; journalist won a Pulitzer for The Times in 1978". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
- ^ a b c d e Fischer, Heinz D. (2002). Complete Biographical Encyclopedia of Pulitzer Prize Winners 1917 - 2000. Walter de Gruyter. p. 219. ISBN 9783110955743.
- ^ "Historical Winners List". UCLA Anderson School of Management. Retrieved January 31, 2019.
- ^ "2 California Papers Lead Loeb Awards". The Washington Post. May 30, 1980. p. D3.
- ^ Yan, Ellen (10 September 2015). "Gaylord Shaw, 73, former Newsday Washington bureau chief, Pulitzer Prize winner, dies". Newsday. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
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- 1974: Paul Steiger
- 1975: Allan Sloan
- 1976: Willard Randal, Stephen Solomon
- 1977: Larry Collins, Susan Trausch
- 1978: Sam Jameson, Robert Rosenblatt, Murray Seeger, Ronald Soble, Paul Steiger
- 1979: N. R. Kleinfield, Richard C. Longworth, Bill Neikirk
- 1980: Cathleen Decker, William J. Eaton, Norman Kempster, Penelope McMillan, Larry Pryor, Tom Redburn, William C. Rempel, Gaylord Shaw, Bill Stall
- 1981: Jonathan Neumann, Ted Gup
- 1982: Linda Grant, Karen Tumulty
- 1983: Robert Frump
- 1984: Dan Morgan
- 1984 (HM): Ted Gup
- 1985: Paul Blustein
- 1985 (HM): Jane Applegate, Patrick Boyle, James Flanigan, Linda Grant, Michael Hiltzik, John Lawrence, Paul Richter, Nancy Rivera, Debra Whitefield
- 1986: Ken Auletta
- 1987: Kimberly Greer
- 1988: Daniel Hertzberg, James B. Stewart
- 1989: Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele
- 1990: David A. Vise, Steve Coll
- 1991: Bryan Burrough
- 1992: Karen Douglass, Dick Lehr, Bruce Mohl, Brian C. Mooney, Gerard O'Neill
- 1993: Alix M. Freedman
- 1994: Scot J. Paltrow
- 1995: Timothy Heider, Joel Rutchick
- 1996: Thomas M. Burton, Richard Gibson, Scott Kilman
- 1997: Bruce D. Butterfield
- 1998: Michael Siconolfi
- 1999: Joel Rutchick
- 2000: Ellen E. Schultz
- 2001: Ronald Campbell, William Heisel, Mark Katches
- 2002: David Heath, Duff Wilson
- 2003: Alec Klein
- 2004: David B. Ottaway, Joe Stephens
- 2005: Walt Bogdanich
- 2006: Ann Hardie, Alan Judd, Carrie Teegardin
- 2007: James Bandler, Charles Forelle, Mark Maremont, Steve Stecklow
- 2008: David Barboza, Walt Bogdanich, Jake Hooker, Andrew W. Lehren
- 2009: Jo Becker, Julie Creswell, Eric Dash, Carter Dougherty, Charles Duhigg, Peter S. Goodman, Stephen Labaton, Gretchen Morgenson, Sheryl Gay Stolberg
- 2010: Andrew Martin, Michael Moss
- 2011: Alexandra Berzon, Douglas A. Blackmon, Ana Campoy, Ben Casselman, Russell Gold, Vanessa O'Connell
- 2012: Ken Bensinger
- 2013: Patricia Callahan, Michael Hawthorne, Sam Roe
- 2014: Barton Gellman, Ellen Nakashima, Laura Poitras, Steven Rich, Ashkan Soltani, Craig Timberg