Homer Bigart

Homer Bigart

Homer William Bigart (October 25, 1907, Hawley, Pennsylvania - April 16, 1991, Portsmouth, New Hampshire) was a reporter for the "New York Herald Tribune" from 1929 to 1955 and the "New York Times" from 1955 to his retirement in 1972. He was considered a "reporter's reporter" [cite web |url=http://www.pbs.org/weta/reportingamericaatwar/reporters/bigart/ |title=Homer Bigart |publisher=PBS |accessdate=2008-08-18] and an "enduring role model."cite web |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CEEDE103AF934A25757C0A967958260 |title=Homer Bigart, Acclaimed Reporter, Dies |author=Richard Severo |date=April 17 1991 |accessdate=2008-08-18]

He won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for Telegraphic Reporting - International for his work in World War II, and the other for International Reporting in the Korean War, as well as most of the other major journalism awards.

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ee also

*The Writing 69th, a group of eight reporters, Bigart being one, who flew bombing missions over Germany in World War II


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