Eugene Franklin Sherman (January 27, 1915 – March 5, 1969) was an American
journalist
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whose work contributed to the ''
Los Angeles Times
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'' winning the
1960
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Events
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Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
[ Sherman started his 30 years on staff as a cub reporter covering nearly all the regular news beats from police and sheriff to municipal and Superior Courts. He then worked as a rewrite man, a frontline general assignment reporter, leading feature story writer, war correspondent, in-depth investigative reporter and a foreign correspondent. He became a daily general interest writer of his page-2 column ''Cityside'' for seven years and a roving national and international assignment reporter. In 1964 he opened the London bureau as part of the ''Los Angeles Times'' bid to widen its editorial base into a national newspaper, rivaling the influence and impact of ''The Washington Post'' and ''The New York Times''.
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Los Angeles Times people
1915 births
1969 deaths
People from Highland Park, Illinois
20th-century American non-fiction writers
20th-century American journalists
American male journalists
American war correspondents of World War II
20th-century American male writers