Paul W. Ward

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Paul William Ward
Born(1905-10-09)October 9, 1905
Lorain, Ohio
Died(1976-11-24)November 24, 1976
NationalityAmerican
Occupationjournalist

Paul William Ward (1905-1976) was a Baltimore Sun correspondent who won a Pulitzer Prize for his overseas reporting "Life in the Soviet Union" in 1948. [1] [2] [3]

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Early life

A native of Lorain, Ohio, Paul Ward was educated at Middlebury College in Vermont. From 1926 to 1930, he worked for the New Bedford's Standard and later joined the Sun in Baltimore as a business correspondent. After three years on the staff in the Baltimore Sun, Ward was transferred to the Washington bureau, where he specialized in covering congressional and departmental affairs. [4]

Career

In 1937, Ward was transferred to London where he took charge of the Sun's local bureau. As a diplomatic correspondent, he participated in the coverage of the first events of World War II, but in 1940 he returned to the United States. He was assigned to Washington to report on State Department news and international politics until 1945. He covered the Dumbarton Oaks Conference of 1944, the Treaty of San Francisco in 1945, the Foreign Ministers Conference in Paris and New York. [2] Beyond that, he covered local events for the Free French news agency, for which he later was named a chevalier of the French Legion of Honor. [4] [5] [1]

During 1946, Ward spent some time in the Soviet Union, where he attended as a reporter the Foreign Ministers Conference and acquainted with the way of life in the country. [5] [1] [2] The journalist reflected his experience in a series of articles "Life in the Soviet Union" that earned the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1948. [4] [3] [6]

From the 1940s to 1970, Paul Ward worked as The Sun's diplomatic correspondent. Six years after his retirement from reporting in 1970, Ward died at Georgetown University Hospital at the age of 71. In 1984, his widow Dorothy Cate Ward and their children established an award in memory of the journalist. The award is recognized annually to first-year students of Middlebury College who produced outstanding essays during the academic year. [7] [5]

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  2. 1 2 3 Fischer, H. (2002). Complete Biographical Encyclopedia of Pulitzer Prize Winners, 1917-2000: Journalists, Writers and Composers on Their Ways to the Coveted Awards. Vienna: Walter de Gruyter. p. 290. ISBN   9783598301865.
  3. 1 2 "Paul W. Ward of The Baltimore Sun". The Pulitzer Prizes. 2020-05-05. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
  4. 1 2 3 Saur, K. G. (2011). International Reporting 1928-1985: From the Activities of the League of Nations to present-day Global Problems. Vienna: De Gruyter. p. 437. ISBN   978-3598301711.
  5. 1 2 3 "PAUL W. WARD DEAD AT 71 ; WON PULITZER PRIZE IN '48". New York Times. 1976-11-25. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
  6. ↑ Fischer, H. D. (2020). 1946–1962: From the end of World War II to the various stations of the Cold War. Vienna: Walter de Gruyter. p. 372. ISBN   9783110849837.
  7. ↑ "The Paul W. Ward '25 Memorial Prize". Middlebury College. 2020. Retrieved 2020-04-21.


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