James V. Risser
{{Short description|American journalist}}
James V. Risser (born 1938) is an American journalist and Emeritus Professor of Communication at Stanford University.
Career
Risser worked for The Des Moines Register for 20 years after which he was a member of the Pulitzer Prize board. He was also the director for Knight Fellowships.{{cite news|author=UPI ARCHIVES|date=Feb 12, 1985|title=James Risser, Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington bureau chief of the...|work=United Press International|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1985/02/12/James-Risser-Pulitzer-Prize-winning-Washington-bureau-chief-of-the/1507477032400/}} He has won two Pulitzer Prizes for National Reporting, one in 1976 and the other in 1979. A Stanford University Prize was named after him, called the "Knight-Risser Prize for Western Environmental Journalism".{{Cite web|url=https://knightrisser.stanford.edu/jim_risser_legacy.html|title=The Knight-Risser Prize for Western Environmental Journalism, Stanford University|last=|first=|date=|website=Stanford University|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-07-17}}{{Cite web|url=https://unlcms.unl.edu/journalism2/cojmc/alumni/jnews/archive/95_spring/risser.html|title=Risser|last=|first=|date=|website=College of Journalism and Mass Communications Archive|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-07-17}}
Awards
- 1979: Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting "for a series on farming damage to the environment".{{Cite web|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/james-risser-0|title=The Pulitzer Prizes|last=Risser|first=James|date=1979|website=www.pulitzer.org|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-07-17}}
- 1977: (with George Anthan) Raymond Clapper Memorial Award "for a story disclosing production of unsanitary meat for the school lunch program."{{cite news|title=President's Regrets|first=Nancy |last=Collins|date=May 1, 1978|work=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1978/05/01/presidents-regrets/3853b0ea-b8c8-4c34-8192-c5f319741457/}}
- 1976: Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting "for disclosing large-scale corruption in the American grain exporting trade".{{Cite web|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/james-risser|title=The Pulitzer Prizes|last=Risser|first=James|date=|website=www.pulitzer.org|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-07-17}}
- 1975: Raymond Clapper Memorial Award{{cite web|title=Raymond Clapper Memorial Award winners (1944 to 2011)|url=https://www.pressclubinstitute.org/raymond-clapper-memorial-award-winners-from-1944-to-2011/|author=Journalism Institute|publisher=National Press Club|access-date=Nov 15, 2023}}
- 1971: Raymond Clapper Memorial Award Honorable Mention
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Category:American male journalists