Jack Fuller
Jack William Fuller (born October 12, 1946, Chicago, Illinois) is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who spent nearly forty years working in newspapers. He began his journalism career as a copyboy for the Chicago Tribune. Later he became a police reporter, a war correspondent in Vietnam, and a Washington correspondent. He worked for City News Bureau of Chicago, The Chicago Daily News, Pacific Stars and Stripes, and The Washington Post, as well as the Tribune. He won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1986 for his editorials on constitutional issues in the Tribune.
During the administration of President Gerald Ford, Fuller served as Special Assistant to United States Attorney General Edward Levi.
From 1989 to 1997 he was editor and then publisher of the Chicago Tribune. From 1997 to 2005 he served as president of the Tribune Publishing Company.
A graduate of Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism and Yale Law School, he is the author of seven novels and two books on journalism.
He serves on the Board of the University of Chicago and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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That tossed the dog”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. The House That Jack Built (l. 16–17)
“Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom.”
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