Peggy Fletcher Stack
{{short description|American journalist, editor, and author|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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| birth_name = Peggy Fletcher
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| birth_place = New Jersey
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| occupation = {{ubl|Journalist|Editor|Writer}}
| years_active = 1975-current
| alma_mater = {{ubl|University of Utah (BA)|Graduate Theological Union (MA)}}
| known_for = Sunstone Magazine
SL Tribune Faith editor
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| spouse = Michael "Mike" Stack{{cite journal|last=Stack|first=Peggy Fletcher|date=April 1995|title=Tales of a true believer: picking up faith along the way|journal=Sunstone|pages=48–54|url=https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/098-48-54.pdf}}
married 1 October 1985
| awards = {{ubl|Pulitzer Prize (2017)|Cornell Award (2004, 2012, 2017-2018)}}
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Peggy Fletcher Stack is an American journalist, editor, and author. Stack has been the lead religion writer for The Salt Lake Tribune since 1991. She and five other journalists at the Salt Lake Tribune won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. She won the Cornell Award for Excellence in Religion Reporting—Mid-sized Newspapers from the Religious News Association in 2004, 2012, 2017, 2018, and 2022.
In 1975 Stack helped found Sunstone, an independent magazine of Mormon studies, and steered it for its first eleven years. She was the editor of Hastings Center Report from 1986 until 1991, when she was hired to start the "Faith" column in the Salt Lake Tribune. Stack is an advisor on religion to the Public Broadcasting Service,{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/about-the-series/advisory-board/|title=Advisory Board|author=Religion & Ethics Newsweekly|website=PBS|access-date=24 September 2022}} and has written two books.
Biography
Peggy Fletcher was raised in New Jersey, daughter of physicist Robert Chipman Fletcher and Rosemary Bennett, one of five girls and three boys. She was raised as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), with her father traveling and speaking as a member of the stake high council. She is a great-granddaughter of Heber J. Grant, an LDS Church president, a granddaughter of United States Senator from Utah, Wallace F. Bennett, and a granddaughter of American physicist Harvey Fletcher.
Fletcher initially attended Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah, for a year, then transferred to the University of Utah, where she earned a BA in English literature. She then attended the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California for two years, where she studied religious history. She then received a fellowship to work in the Church History Division of the LDS Church (then run by Leonard J. Arrington).
In 1975, following discussions with Scott Kenney and others, she helped found Sunstone, an independent magazine of Mormon studies. From 1978 to 1986, she was the third editor of Sunstone. During her time with the magazine, she helped turn around its finances, saving it from closing. She met Mike Stack when he volunteered as a photographer for Sunstone in 1984, and they married in October 1985.
The Stacks traveled in Africa for a year, then settled in New York City for five years, where she worked as the editor of the Hastings Center Report while her husband attended film school. They moved to Utah in 1991 when she was hired to be the religion writer for The Salt Lake Tribune, where much of her reporting has focused on the LDS Church. She started the "Faith" column after a discussion with Tribune editor Jay Shelledy. During her time there, she has met and interviewed the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Gordon B. Hinckley, among others.
She won the 2004 Cornell Award for 'Excellence in Religion Reporting—Mid-sized Newspapers' from the Religion Newswriters Association in 2004, an award she also received in 2012, 2017, and 2018. The American Academy of Religion awarded her a first place Journalism Award in 2014 for her reporting on LDS missionaries who return home early from their volunteer missions. Along with five other reporters, she won a Pulitzer Prize in 2017 in the Local Reporting category for a series of stories about sexual assault victims at BYU.
Stack wrote a children's book about religion with artist Kathleen B. Petersen, entitled A World of Faith, published in 1998.
Publications
;Books
- {{cite book|author=Stack, Peggy Fletcher|others=Peterson, Kathleen B. (illustrator)|title=A World of Faith|year=1998|publisher=Signature Books|location=Salt Lake City, Utah|isbn=978-1-56085-116-5|oclc=40150590|url=https://archive.org/details/worldoffaith0000stac|url-access=registration}}
- {{cite book|author1=Daniel Burke|author2= Peggy Fletcher Stack|author3=Matt Canham|author4=Jana Reiss|title=The Mormon Moment: A Religion News Service Guide|date=18 October 2012|publisher=Patheos Press|url=https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/blog/2012/11/04/the-mormon-moment-a-religion-news-service-guide-review}}
;Journal articles
- {{cite journal|last=Fletcher|first=Peggy|date=June 1976|title=About the Sunstone|journal=Sunstone|pages=10–13|issn=0363-1370|oclc=367574561|url=https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/003-10-13.pdf}}
- {{cite journal|last=Fletcher|first=Peggy|date=June 1978|title=Speaking Tubes in the Household of Faith|journal=Sunstone|pages=8–12|url=https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/010-08-12.pdf}}
- {{cite journal|last=Fletcher|first=Peggy|date=August 1982|title=A Light Unto the World: Image Building Is Anathema to Christian Living|journal=Sunstone|pages=16–23|url=https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/034-16-23.pdf}}
- {{cite journal|last=Fletcher|first=Peggy|date=January 1985|title=From the Editors: Stretching Toward the Light|journal=Sunstone|pages=4–5|url=https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/045-04-05.pdf}}
- {{cite journal|last=Fletcher|first=Peggy|date=January 1985|title=Poelman Revises Conference Speech|journal=Sunstone|pages=44–45|url=https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/045-44-57.pdf}}
- {{cite journal|last=Fletcher|first=Peggy|date=February 1985|title=From the Editors: People of God|journal=Sunstone|pages=4–5|url=https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/046-04-05.pdf}}
- {{cite journal|last=Fletcher|first=Peggy|date=April 1985|title=From the Editors: A Failure to Communicate|journal=Sunstone|pages=6–7|url=https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/048-06-07.pdf}}
- {{cite journal|last=Fletcher|first=Peggy|date=April 1985|title=Church Historian: Evolution of a Calling|journal=Sunstone|pages=46–48|url=https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/048-46-65.pdf}}
- {{cite journal|last=Fletcher|first=Peggy|date=May 1985|title=From the Editors: Decennial Reflection|journal=Sunstone|pages=2–3|url=https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/049-02-03.pdf}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Ruthven |first1=Malise |author-link1=Malise Ruthven |last2=Fletcher Stack |first2=Peggy |date=Spring 1991 |title=The Mormons' Progress |journal=The Wilson Quarterly |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=22–47 |issn=0363-3276 |oclc=609064233 |url=http://www.wilsonquarterly.com/article.cfm?AID=4304&AT=1 |format=fee required |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718053024/http://www.wilsonquarterly.com/article.cfm?AID=4304&AT=1 |archive-date=18 July 2011}}
- {{cite journal|last=Stack|first=Peggy Fletcher|date=April 1995|title=Tales of a true believer: picking up faith along the way|journal=Sunstone|pages=48–54|url=https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/098-48-54.pdf}}
- {{cite journal|last=Stack|first=Peggy Fletcher|date=December 1998|title=Books: Mormon Novels Entertain While Teaching Lessons|journal=Sunstone|pages=66–67|url=https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/112-66-69.pdf}}
- {{cite journal|last=Fletcher|first=Peggy|date=December 1999|title=Decennial Reflections|journal=Sunstone|volume=22|issue=Silver Anniversary|pages=113–115|url=https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/115-6-113-115.pdf}}
- {{cite journal|last=Stack|first=Peggy Fletcher|date=March 2005|title=Twenty Years Ago in Sunstone: Symbol and Promise|journal=Sunstone|page=13|url=https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/136-10-13.pdf}}
Awards and honors
Stack has received and been nominated for multiple awards.
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| 2004
| Religion Newswriters Association | RNA Awards, | - | {{won}} | - |
| 2008
| Religion Newswriters Association | RNA Awards, | "They've got a friend" | {{nom|3}} | - |
| 2010
| Religion Newswriters Association | RNA Awards, | - | {{nom|2}} | - |
| rowspan="2" | 2011
| rowspan="2" | Religion Newswriters Association | RNA Awards, | "Nation's Founders: How Religious Were They?" | {{nom|2}} | - |
| RNA Awards, Supple Religion Writer of the Year | "Nation's Founders: How Religious Were They?" | {{nom|3}} | - |
| 2012
| Religion Newswriters Association | RNA Awards, | - | {{won}} | - |
| rowspan="2" | 2013
| rowspan="2" | Religion Newswriters Association | RNA Awards, | - | {{nom|2}} | - |
| RNA Awards, Supple Religion Writer of the Year | - | {{nom|3}} | - |
| 2014
| American Academy of Religion | Journalism Award | "Guilt, pain, help and hope — when Mormon missionaries come home early" | {{won}} | - |
| 2015
| Religion Newswriters Association | RNA Awards, | - | {{nom|2}} | - |
| 2016
| Religion Newswriters Association | RNA Awards, | - | {{nom|3}} | - |
| rowspan="2" | 2017
| Pulitzer Prize, | "For a string of vivid reports revealing the perverse, punitive and cruel treatment given to sexual assault victims at Brigham Young University, one of Utah's most powerful institutions." | {{won}} | Shared by six writers. |
| Religion Newswriters Association
| RNA Awards, | - | {{won}} | - |
| 2018
| Religion Newswriters Association | RNA Awards, | - | {{won}} | - |
| 2022
| Religion Newswriters Association | RNA Awards, | - | {{won}} | - |
References
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{{cite web|url=https://aarweb.org/AARMBR/AARMBR/About-AAR-/Award-Programs-/Awards/Journalism-Award-Winners-and-Sample-Articles.aspx|title=Journalism Awards - Winners and Articles|publisher=American Academy of Religion|access-date=15 July 2022|archive-date=15 July 2022|archive-url=https://archive.today/20220715172246/https://aarweb.org/AARMBR/AARMBR/About-AAR-/Award-Programs-/Awards/Journalism-Award-Winners-and-Sample-Articles.aspx|url-status=live}}
{{cite web|url=https://www.kuer.org/religion/2017-10-04/nobody-knows-religion-quite-like-peggy-fletcher-stack|title=Nobody Knows Religion Quite Like Peggy Fletcher Stack|first=Lee|last=Hale|date=4 October 2017|publisher=KUER|access-date=14 July 2022|archive-date=14 July 2022|archive-url=https://archive.today/20220714183428/https://www.kuer.org/religion/2017-10-04/nobody-knows-religion-quite-like-peggy-fletcher-stack|url-status=live}}
{{cite web|url=https://kutv.com/features/person-2-person/person-2-person-peggy-fletcher-stack|title=Person 2 Person: Peggy Fletcher Stack|date=11 February 2018|first=Maren|last=Jensen|publisher=KUTV|access-date=15 July 2022|archive-date=15 July 2022|archive-url=https://archive.today/20220715182827/https://kutv.com/features/person-2-person/person-2-person-peggy-fletcher-stack|url-status=live}}
{{cite web|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/salt-lake-tribune-staff|title=The 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Local Reporting: The Salt Lake Tribune Staff|date=2017|publisher=Columbia University|access-date=14 July 2022|archive-date=14 July 2022|archive-url=https://archive.today/20220714185029/https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/salt-lake-tribune-staff|url-status=live}}
|journal=Sunstone|date=December 2002|pages=24–35|access-date=15 July 2022|archive-date=15 July 2022|archive-url=https://archive.today/20220715185050/https://sunstone.org/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/125-24-35.pdf|url-status=live}}
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Further reading
- {{citation|title=Following faith, especially Mormonism (interview of Peggy Fletcher Stack)|first=Sarah Pulliam|last=Bailey|publisher=GetReligion.org|url=http://www.getreligion.org/2011/12/following-faith-especially-mormonism/|date=30 December 2011}}
- {{Cite journal|first=Lavina Fielding|last=Anderson|author-link=Lavina Fielding Anderson|url=https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/117-44-54.pdf|title=Dreams, Dollars, and Dr. Pepper: Allen Roberts & Peggy Fletcher Years (1978–1980)|journal=Sunstone|date=February 2000|pages=44–54}}
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