Hank Klibanoff (born March 26, 1949 in

Florence, Alabama Florence is a city in, and the county seat of, Lauderdale County, Alabama, United States, in the state's northwestern corner. It is situated along the Tennessee River and is home to the University of North Alabama, the oldest college in the st ...

) is an American journalist, now a professor at

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. He and Gene Roberts won the 2007

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for the book '' The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation''.

Early life and education

Hank Klibanoff was born and raised in

. He got an early start in journalism delivering newspapers by bicycle. He graduated from Coffee High School in Florence and attended

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, where he studied under

Howard Nemerov Howard Nemerov (March 1, 1920 – July 5, 1991) was an American poet. He was twice Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, from 1963 to 1964 and again from 1988 to 1990. For ''The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov'' (1977 ...

and received his B.A. in English. He subsequently received a master's degree in journalism from the

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Career

He was managing editor of the ''

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'' until June 24, 2008, when he stepped down. He had been deputy managing editor for ''

The Philadelphia Inquirer ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'' is a daily newspaper headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The newspaper's circulation is the largest in both the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the Delaware Valley metropolitan region of Southeastern Pennsy ...

'', where he worked for 20 years. He had also been a reporter for six years in

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and three years at ''

The Boston Globe ''The Boston Globe'' is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes, and has a total circulation of close to 300,000 print and digital subscribers. ''The Boston Glob ...

''. Klibanoff is currently the director of the journalism program at

in Atlanta, Georgia, as well as the project managing editor of the Civil Rights Cold Case Project. He hosts a podcast called "Buried Truths" about racial tensions in Georgia during and after the 1948 election. The podcast won a 2018

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Family

Klibanoff is father to 3 girls, Eleanor, Caroline and Corinne; he is married to Laurie Leonard.

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