George Goodwin (journalist)
George Evans Goodwin (June 20, 1917 – January 21, 2015) was an American journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for his work at The Atlanta Journal.
Life, education, and career
Goodwin was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated in 1939 with an A.B. degree and a certificate in journalism from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. During World War II he served for three years in the United States Navy, including twenty months on operations as an intelligence officer. During his long career in journalism he reported for The Atlanta Journal and Atlanta Georgian (both of which James M. Cox had acquired in December 1939), the Washington Times-Herald and The Miami Daily News (another Cox property). The Georgia chapter of the Public Relations Society of America's annual award for volunteer service in named in his honor.{{cite web|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeJeESOW59A|title= Video Tribute to Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist George E. Goodwin|accessdate=9 March 2012|author=Manning Selvage & Lee Public Relations|website= YouTube}} An authority on public relations, Goodwin advised civic leaders including former Atlanta mayors Maynard Jackson and Shirley Franklin, as well as Ambassador Andrew Young.{{cite web|url= http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2011/03/18/goodwin-embraced-atlantas-growth.html?page=all|title=Goodwin embraced Atlanta's growth |accessdate=9 March 2012|author=Tonya Layman |publisher= Atlanta Business Chronicle, 18 March 2011}} He had also been a Rotarian Senior Counselor.[https://books.google.com/books?id=8TUEAAAAMBAJ&dq=george+e+goodwin&pg=PA11 (Letter to the editor)], George E. Goodwin, The Rotarian, May 1988, p. 11. He died at the age of 97 on January 21, 2015.{{cite web|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2015/01/21/george-goodwin-pulitzer-prize-winning-journalist.html |title=George Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and dean of Atlanta's PR industry, dies |publisher=www.bizjournals.com |date=2015 |accessdate=2020-01-19}}
Pulitzer Prize
In 1947 Goodwin covered a fraudulent election in Telfair County, Georgia, for The Atlanta Journal. He won the next annual Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting citing that work.
References
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Heinz Dietrich Fischer and Erika J. Fischer, The Pulitzer Prize Archive: Volume 16: Complete Biographical Encyclopedia of Pulitzer Prize winners, 1917–2000, Walter de Gruyter, Munich, 2002, {{ISBN|3598301863}}, p. 87. [https://books.google.com/books?id=-2o4Ywn4LJwC&dq=George+e.+Goodwin+journalist&pg=PA87 Page 87 at Google Books].
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