American journalist
William J. Eaton (December 9, 1930 – August 23, 2005) was an American journalist.
He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for his Chicago Daily News coverage of the confirmation battle over Clement Haynsworth , an unsuccessful Richard Nixon nominee for the Supreme Court of the United States . This landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents .
In 1980 he shared the Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers for his reporting on the U.S. energy crisis .[1] [2]
From 1984 to 1988, Eaton was chief of the Moscow bureau of the Los Angeles Times . He retired in 1994, then became curator of the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellows journalism program at the University of Maryland . He was a past president of the National Press Club .
References [ edit ] Staff report (August 25, 2005). William J. Eaton; Journalist, 74. New York Times External links [ edit ]
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