Clarence Page
{{Short description|American journalist (born 1947)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Clarence Page
| image = Clarence Page 2007 (cropped).jpg
| caption = Page in 2007
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|06|02}}
| birth_place = Dayton, Ohio, U.S.
| education = Ohio University
| occupation = Journalist
| spouse = Leanita McClain (divorced)
Lisa Johnson (1987–present)
| credits = Chicago Tribune
The Cincinnati Enquirer
The Middletown Journal
}}
Clarence Page (born June 2, 1947) is an American journalist, syndicated columnist,{{cite web |title=Clarence Page articles |url=https://tribunecontentagency.com/premium-content/opinion/liberal/clarence-page/ |website=Tribune Content Agency |accessdate=9 October 2018}} and senior member of the Chicago Tribune editorial board.{{cite news | title=The Chicago Tribune Editorial Board | url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-editorialboard,0,3279387.special | work=The Chicago Tribune | year=2008 | accessdate=2008-12-12}}
Early years
Page was born in Dayton, Ohio, and attended Middletown High School in Middletown where he worked on the school's bi-weekly newspaper. After graduating in 1965, he worked freelance as a writer and photographer for The Middletown Journal and The Cincinnati Enquirer, while he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in journalism from Ohio University.{{cite news | author=Clarence Page | title=Clarence Page Bio | url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-clarencepage,0,3614106,bio.columnist | work=The Chicago Tribune | year=2008 | accessdate=2008-12-12}}
Career
After his graduation from university in 1969, Page took a position with The Chicago Tribune, and was drafted into the military after only six months with the paper. He found himself assigned as an Army journalist with the 212th Artillery Group at Fort Lewis, Washington, when his obligation ended and he made his way back to the Tribune in 1971.
Page was a frequent panelist on The McLaughlin Group, a regular contributor of essays to The PBS NewsHour, host of several documentaries on the Public Broadcasting Service, and is an occasional commentator on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Sunday. Page often appears as a political analyst on the Hardball with Chris Matthews{{Cite web |url=http://www.tmsfeatures.com/bio/clarence-page/ |title=www.tmsfeatures.com >> Clarence Page - Clarence Page |access-date=2015-04-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150413012501/http://www.tmsfeatures.com/bio/clarence-page/ |archive-date=2015-04-13 |url-status=dead }} on MSNBC. He also appeared in the 1993 film Rising Sun, playing himself as a talk show panel member. Page's achievements came despite an undiagnosed case of ADD, the effects of which he recounts in a chapter in Positively ADD.{{cite book | last=Corman | first=Catherine A. | author2=Hallowell, Edward M. | title=Positively ADD: Real Success Stories to Inspire Your Dreams | pages=[https://archive.org/details/positivelyaddrea00corm/page/90 90–97] | location=New York | publisher=Walker | year=2006 | isbn=0-8027-8071-7 | url=https://archive.org/details/positivelyaddrea00corm/page/90 }}
Clarence Page wrote an editorial piece about "Richie" Daley and his achievements as mayor of Chicago.Page, Clarence. [https://www.chicagotribune.com/2010/09/08/a-mayor-who-showed-his-love/ "A mayor who showed his love,"] Chicago Tribune (Sept. 8, 2010).
Personal life
Page was married to and later divorced from Leanita McClain, a Tribune columnist who also focused on race. In 1987 Page married Lisa Johnson with whom he has one son, Grady Jonathan.
Honors and awards
Page has received honoris causa doctorates from Columbia College Chicago, Lake Forest College, and Nazareth College in Rochester, New York.
- 1972 Pulitzer Prize for a Chicago Tribune Task Force series on voter fraud
- 1976 Edward Scott Beck Award for overseas reporting on the changing politics of Southern Africa
- 1980 Illinois UPI Award for community service for The Black Tax
- 1987 American Civil Liberties Union James P. McGuire Award for columns on constitutional rights
- 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
Bibliography
- {{cite book | last=Page | first=Clarence | title=Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity | location=New York | publisher=HarperCollins | year=1996 | isbn=0-06-017256-8 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/showingmycolorim00page }}
- {{cite book | last=Page | first=Clarence | title=A Bridge to the New Media Century | location=Ithaca, NY | publisher=Ithaca College | year=2000 | oclc=55010879}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/page/ Clarence Page's columns in the Chicago Tribune] includes archive and biography
- {{C-SPAN|19609}}
- {{IMDb name|656136}}
- [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/essays/clarence_page.html The Online NewsHour, Clarence Page Essays]
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{{PulitzerPrize Commentary 1976–2000}}
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Category:African-American journalists
Category:African-American television personalities
Category:African-American writers
Category:Chicago Tribune people
Category:Ohio University alumni
Category:Writers from Dayton, Ohio
Category:People from Montgomery County, Maryland
Category:Pulitzer Prize for Commentary winners
Category:Journalists from Chicago
Category:Journalists from Ohio
Category:21st-century African-American people