Gaylord Dewayne Shaw
Born(1942-07-22)July 22, 1942
El Reno, Oklahoma
DiedSeptember 6, 2015(2015-09-06) (aged 73)
Duncan, Oklahoma
NationalityAmerican
OccupationJournalist
Known forWinning a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1978 and breaking the news of President Richard Nixon's resignation

Gaylord Dewayne Shaw (July 22, 1942 – September 6, 2015) was an American journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1978.

Early life and education

Shaw was born on July 22, 1942, in El Reno, Oklahoma.[1][2] He attended Cameron College from 1960 to 1962 and the University of Oklahoma from 1962 to 1964.[3]

Journalism career

While in college, Shaw began his journalism career as a police reporter for the Constitution-Press in Lawton.[3] In 1962, at the age of twenty, he joined the Associated Press's Oklahoma City bureau.[1][3] In 1966, he joined the Associated Press's Washington, D.C. office to work as a deskman, and from 1967 to 1971 he was a member of an Associated Press special assignment team focused mainly on investigative reporting.[3] In March 1975, he began working for the Los Angeles Times in their Washington bureau.[3] In 1978, he won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series of articles he wrote for the Los Angeles Times about unsafe dams across the United States.[1][2] He has also been credited with breaking the news that President Richard Nixon was going to resign.[1] He earned the 1980 Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers for coverage of the U.S. energy crisis.[4][5] In 1988, he joined Newsday as their Washington bureau chief, where he oversaw a Pulitzer Prize-winning story about the Persian Gulf War in 1991.[2] In 1997, he was part of a large team of reporters that won another Pulitzer Prize for a story about the crash of TWA Flight 800, for spot news reporting.[1][2] He retired in 2002.[1]

Death

Shaw died on September 6, 2015, in Duncan, Oklahoma; his family members suspect he died from a heart attack.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Gaylord D. Shaw, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter, Dies at 73". New York Times. Associated Press. 10 September 2015. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d Phelps, Timothy M. (9 September 2015). "Gaylord Shaw dies at 73; journalist won a Pulitzer for The Times in 1978". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  3. ^ a b c d e Fischer, Heinz D. (2002). Complete Biographical Encyclopedia of Pulitzer Prize Winners 1917 - 2000. Walter de Gruyter. p. 219. ISBN 9783110955743.
  4. ^ "Historical Winners List". UCLA Anderson School of Management. Retrieved January 31, 2019.
  5. ^ "2 California Papers Lead Loeb Awards". The Washington Post. May 30, 1980. p. D3.
  6. ^ Yan, Ellen (10 September 2015). "Gaylord Shaw, 73, former Newsday Washington bureau chief, Pulitzer Prize winner, dies". Newsday. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
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