William J. Eaton

William J. Eaton (* December 1930 in Chicago, Illinois; † August 24, 2005 in Potomac, Maryland) was an American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner in 1970.

Life

Eaton was born the son of a craftsman in Chicago. He studied at Northwestern University 's Medill School of Journalism in 1951 and earned his bachelor's in 1952 his master's degree. He later studied at Harvard University economics and history.

His first job was at the newspaper Chicago Daily News in Chicago. In 1957, he was also responsible for articles for UPI United Press International. From 1966 to 1976 he was a correspondent for the Chicago Daily News in Washington, DC.

William Eaton was 1970, the Sidney Hillman Award and the Pulitzer Prize for the revelations in the context of the calling of the Federal Judge Clement F. Haynesworth Jr. awarded for the U.S. Supreme Court by President Richard Nixon.

From 1976 he worked for the Los Angeles Times in Washington. 1984 to 1988 he was office manager of the Los Angeles Times in Moscow and accompanied the reform process of Mikhail Gorbachev and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

After his retirement in 1994 he was curator of the " Humphrey Fellowship Program" of the University of Maryland. He was a long time president of the National Press Club ( National Press Club ).

Eaton was first married to Marilyn Myers, later with Carole Kennon.