Roy J. Harris
Roy J. Harris (1902–1980) was an American journalist, an investigative reporter whose work was rewarded with the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
Journalism career
[edit]The 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service was awarded "[f]or the work of George Thiem and Roy J. Harris, respectively, in exposing the presence of 37 Illinois newspapermen on an Illinois State payroll."[1]
References
[edit]- ^ "Public Service". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
The Pulitzer Prize won by Roy J. Harris and George Thiem was chronicled in a book on the Public Service Pulitzer Prizes, "Pulitzer's Gold," by Harris's son, Roy J. Harris Jr. https://www.pulitzersgold.com/ An article about the connection between the two Harrises was published on the Pulitzer Prize website. https://www.pulitzer.org/article/life-pulitzers
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