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[]
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[]
- ^ "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
Categories:
- American male journalists
- University of Illinois alumni
- 1902 births
- 1980 deaths
- Journalists from Illinois
- 20th-century American journalists
- American journalist stubs