Richard Cooper (journalist)

This article is about a journalist from the USA. For other people named Richard or Dick Cooper, see Richard Cooper (disambiguation).

Richard (Dick) Cooper, (born December 8, 1946), is an American journalist retired from a 28-year career as reporter and editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer.[1] He and John Machacek of the Rochester Times-Union won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Local General or Spot News Reporting for their coverage of the Attica Prison Riots.[2] He currently lives in Saint Michaels, Maryland, where he founded Cooper Media Associates and writes for the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum and other clients.

He is an avid sailor and has owned several boats over the years. Currently, he sails Tusitala, a Hinckley Bermuda 40 yawl with a flag-blue hull, out of Saint Michaels, Maryland.

References

  1. ↑ Elizabeth A. Brennan, Elizabeth C. Clarage (1999). Who's who of Pulitzer Prize winners. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-57356-111-2.
  2. ↑ "1972 Winners". The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org). Retrieved 24 Feb 2011.

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