Sylvan Fox
Sylvan Fox (June 2, 1928 – December 22, 2007) was an American journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize. He worked as a reporter at several newspapers in upstate New York[clarification needed] before he came to the New York City-based World-Telegram newspaper. He wrote one of the first books critical of the 1964 report by the Warren Commission on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, The Unanswered Questions about the Kennedy Assassination (Award, 1965). From 1967 to 1973, he worked as a reporter and editor at the New York Times, including a stint as the Saigon bureau chief in 1973. He went on to spend 15 years at Newsday, where he was editorial page editor from 1979 to 1988.
Fox was a reporter at The New York World-Telegram and Sun on March 1, 1962, when he was part of a team assigned to cover an airplane crash on Long Island that killed all 95 passengers. He worked the facts provided by other reporters on the scene and delivered an article within thirty minutes of the accident. He rewrote the article for seven editions of the paper, adding new details as they came in. Within 90 minutes of the crash, he had produced a 3,000-word story. Next year he shared with colleagues Anthony Shannon and William Longgood the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, Edition Time[1][2]—referring to work under pressure of a deadline, a predecessor of the Breaking News Pulitzer.
Fox grew up in Brooklyn. He was a classically trained pianist and spent four years at the Juilliard School of Music, but left without a degree because of his decision to change his major from piano to musical composition. There he met Gloria Endleman, a fellow piano student, who became his wife and who survives him. Sylvan Fox graduated from Brooklyn College with a degree in philosophy, then earned a master's degree in musicology from the University of California, Berkeley. Fox was a visiting professor at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus in 1967 and 1968, where he taught journalism courses. <(ref The Sound, LIU's yearbook (1967, 1968))>.
He died, aged 79, in New York University's Medical Center from complications from pneumonia.
References
- ↑ "Local Reporting; Edition Time". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-10-26.
- ↑ "Sylvan Fox, 79, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist, Dies". Eric Konigsberg. The New York Times. December 23, 2007. Retrieved 2013-10-26. Quote: Sylvan Fox, the first "rewrite man" to be singled out for a Pulitzer Prize ...
External links
- Works by Sylvan Fox at Open LibraryLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Library of Congress Catalog Records: The Unanswered Questions about President Kennedy's Assassination (New York: Award Books, 1965) (London: Mayflower, 1966)
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