R John Hughes

Journalist

Birthday April 12, 1930

Birth Sign Aries

Birthplace Wales

Age 93 years old

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About

Longtime journalist for The Christian Science Monitor and former president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He won the Pulitzer in 1967.

Before Fame

He started working as a reporter for the Natal Mercury when he was only 16 years old.

Trivia

He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1967 for reporting on the attempted Communist coup in Indonesia in 1965.

Family Life

He had three children and six grandchildren.

Associated With

He was asked to chair President George H. W. Bush’s bipartisan Task Force on the future of U.S. government international broadcasting in 1991.