Jeff Lyon
Jeff Lyon won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1987, for The Chicago Tribune.
Background
Lyon was born in Chicago in 1945. He studied at the Francis W. Parker High School and graduated with a BSJ from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He is married to Bonita Brodt who is a feature writer for the Tribune. The couple has one daughter and live in Chicago.[1]
Journalism
Lyon first worked at The Miami Herald and then moved back to Chicago to begin work at both worked at Chicago’s American and Chicago Today for eight years. Following that he began work at the Tribune as well as its Sunday magazine. In 1976 he became a columnist for that journal and then five years later a feature writer.[2] Lyon held the role of Deputy Editor at the Tribune and Director of the science writing program at Chicago’s Columbia College.
Awards and acclaim
Lyon won the Pulitzer Prize, together with Peter Gorner, for The Chicago Tribune “for [the seven part ‘Altered Fates, The Promise of Gene Therapy’ 1986] series on the promises of gene therapy, which examined the implications of this revolutionary medical treatment.” According to Tribune Editor James D. Squires, the Altered Fates series “is an outstanding example of the kind of excellence in journalism symbolized by the Pulitzer Prize. In 1986, the Tribune had a number of outstanding reporting efforts we think worthy of the Pulitzer, but theirs was indeed our best. All of us are proud and grateful that it was so recognized.”[3]
Lyon was the recipient of the 1984 National Headliner Award for a Tribune series on the care of congenitally handicapped newborns. Thereafter he expanded this work and wrote a book based on it, called, Playing God in the Nursery.
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- Jon Franklin (1985)
- Staff of The New York Times (1986)
- Jeff Lyon & Peter Gorne (1987)
- Daniel Hertzberg & James B. Stewart (1988)
- David Hanners, William Snyder & Karen Blessen (1989)
- David A. Vise & Steve Coll (1990)
- Susan C. Faludi (1991)
- Robert S. Capers & Eric Lipton (1992)
- Mike Toner (1993)
- Ronald Kotulak (1994)
- Leon Dash & Lucian Perkins (1995)
- Laurie Garrett (1996)
- Michael Vitez, April Saul & Ron Cortes (1997)
- Paul Salopek (1998)
- Richard Read (1999)
- Eric Newhouse (2000)
- Staff of the Chicago Tribune (2001)
- Staff of The New York Times (2002)
- Staff of The Wall Street Journal (2003)
- Kevin Helliker & Thomas M. Burton (2004)
- Gareth Cook (2005)
- David Finkel (2006)
- Kenneth R. Weiss, Usha Lee McFarling & Rick Loomis (2007)
- Amy Harmon (2008)
- Bettina Boxall & Julie Cart (2009)
- Michael Moss & Staff of The New York Times (2010)
- Mark Johnson, Kathleen Gallagher, Gary Porter, Lou Saldivar & Alison Sherwood (2011)
- David Kocieniewski (2012)
- Staff of The New York Times including David Barboza, Charles Duhigg, David Kocieniewski, Steve Lohr, John Markoff, David Segal, David Streitfeld, Hiroko Tabuchi & Bill Vlasic (2013)
- Eli Saslow (2014)
- Zachary R. Mider (2015)
- T. Christian Miller & Ken Armstrong (2016)
- International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy & Miami Herald (2017)
- Staff of The Arizona Republic & Staff of USA Today Network (2018)
- David Barstow, Susanne Craig & Russ Buettne (2019)
- Staff of The Washington Post (2020)
- Ed Yong (2021)
- Andrew Chung, Lawrence Hurley, Andrea Januta, Jaimi Dowdell and Jackie Botts (2021)
- Natalie Wolchover & Staff of Quanta Magazine (2022)
- Caitlin Dickerson (2023)
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