Joseph Rago
{{Short description|American conservative writer}}
{{Infobox person
|name=Joseph Arthur Rago
|birth_date= {{Birth date|1983|01|06}}
|birth_place= Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.
|death_date= {{Death date and age|2017|07|20|1983|01|06}}
|death_place= Manhattan, New York, U.S.
|occupation= Journalist, columnist
|alma_mater= Dartmouth College
|website=http://www.josephragomemorialfund.org/
|footnotes={{cite web |accessdate=2017-08-05 |location=West Falmouth, Massachusetts |url=https://www.ccgfuneralhome.com/obit/joseph-a.-rago |publisher=Chapman, Cole, Gleason |title=Joseph A. Rago}} (obituary)
}}
Joseph Rago (January 6, 1983 – July 20, 2017) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning{{cite web|url= http://www.pulitzer.org/biography/2011-Editorial-Writing |work=The Pulitzer Prizes|title=The 2011 Pulitzer Prize Winners Editorial Writing}} American political writer,{{cite news|url=https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748703916004576271222668393848|title=WSJ|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|date=19 April 2011|publisher=|accessdate=23 July 2017|via=online.wsj.com}} best known for his work at The Wall Street Journal.[http://topics.wsj.com/person/R/joseph-rago/5698 The Wall Street Journal]
Education
Rago attended Falmouth High School in Falmouth, Massachusetts, where he was president of the National Honor Society. He graduated in 2001.{{cite web|url= http://www.capecodtimes.com/article/20010610/news01/306109972 |title=Seniors sail with mixed emotions |author= Paula Peters |publisher=Cape Cod Times |date=June 10, 2001|accessdate= July 22, 2017}}
Rago graduated with a degree in American history from Dartmouth College in 2005. While there, he wrote for The Dartmouth Review, an independent conservative student newspaper, serving as its editor-in-chief in 2005, and on its board after his graduation. He was also a member of Phi Delta Alpha fraternity.{{cite web|url=https://dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/articles/no-ordinary-joe |title=No Ordinary Joe |author=Emily Esfahani Smith |publisher=Dartmouth Alumni Magazine |date=Jan–Feb 2018 |accessdate=May 5, 2025}}
Career
Rago joined The Wall Street Journal in 2005 as an intern and rose from an assistant editor on the op-ed page to editorial writer to a member of the editorial board.{{cite web |url=http://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news/u-s-national-news/876-wall-street-journal-editor-critical-of-obamacare-found-dead-at-34 |title=Wall Street Journal Editor, Critical of "Obamacare" Found Dead at 34 |website=halturnerradioshow.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170726085115/http://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news/u-s-national-news/876-wall-street-journal-editor-critical-of-obamacare-found-dead-at-34 |archive-date=2017-07-26}}
Rago was also a 2010 media fellow at the Stanford University Hoover Institution.
Rago was known for being an outspoken critic of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. In 2011, he captured the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for what the Pulitzer organization called his "well crafted, against-the-grain editorials challenging the health care reform advocated by President Obama."{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703916004576271220730485178|title=The Journal Wins Editorial Pulitzer|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|date=19 April 2011}}{{cite web|work=The Nation|title='WSJ' Pulitzer Winner Simply Blasted 'ObamaCare'|authorlink=Greg Mitchell |first=Greg|last=Mitchell |date=April 19, 2011|url= http://www.thenation.com/blog/160024/wsj-pulitzer-winner-simply-blasted-obamacare#}}
Death
In July 2017, Rago was found dead at his East Village, Manhattan apartment; he was 34 years old.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/21/business/media/wall-street-journal-editorial-writer-is-found-dead.html|title=Wall Street Journal Editorial Writer Is Found Dead|first=Sydney|last=Ember|newspaper=The New York Times|date=21 July 2017|publisher=|accessdate=23 July 2017}} In September 2017, New York City's medical examiner office released a statement confirming his cause of death to be sarcoidosis.{{Cite web|url=https://patch.com/new-york/east-village/joseph-rago-cause-death-released-wall-street-journal-writer-found-dead-nyc|title=Joseph Rago: Cause of Death Released for Wall Street Journal Writer Found Dead in NYC|date=12 September 2017}}{{cite news|author1=Zolan Kanno-Youngs|title=Wall Street Journal's Joseph Rago Died of Natural Causes, Medical Examiner Says|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/medical-examiner-said-wall-street-journals-joseph-rago-died-of-natural-causes-1505242044|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|date=12 September 2017|accessdate=12 September 2017}}
References
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External links
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20140905012444/http://now.dartmouth.edu/2011/10/video-the-wall-street-journals-joseph-rago-05-reflects-on-dartmouth/ Dartmouth Now]
- [https://tfas.org/programs/joseph-rago-memorial-fellowship-for-excellence-in-journalism/ https:/]
- [https://tfas.org/programs/joseph-rago-memorial-fellowship-for-excellence-in-journalism/ /tfas.org/programs/joseph-rago-memorial-fellowship-for-excellence-in-journalism/] Category:1983 births
Category:21st-century American non-fiction writers
Category:American male non-fiction writers
Category:American political commentators
Category:American political writers
Category:Dartmouth College alumni
Category:People from Falmouth, Massachusetts
Category:Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing winners
Category:The Wall Street Journal people
Category:Writers from Massachusetts
Category:People from the East Village, Manhattan
Category:Writers from Manhattan
Category:21st-century American male writers
Category:Deaths from sarcoidosis
Category:Falmouth High School (Massachusetts) alumni
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