Jack William Fuller (October 12, 1946 – June 21, 2016)Biography at th

was an American journalist who spent nearly forty years working in newspapers and was the author of seven novels and two books on journalism.

Biography

Fuller was born in

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. He was a 1964 alumnus of

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in Flossmoor, Illinois, and a graduate of Northwestern's

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and

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. He began his journalism career as a copyboy for the ''

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''. Later he became a police reporter, a war correspondent in Vietnam, and a Washington correspondent. He worked for City News Bureau of Chicago, ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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'', as well as the ''Tribune''. Fuller won the

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in 1986 for his ''Tribune'' editorials on constitutional issues. During the administration of President Gerald Ford, Fuller served as Special Assistant to United States Attorney General Edward Levi. From 1989 to 1997 he was editor and then publisher of the ''Chicago Tribune.'' From 1997 to 2005 he served as president of the Tribune Publishing Company. He served on the board of the

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and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Fuller died of cancer on June 21, 2016, at the age of 69.

Selected works

* ''Convergence'' (Doubleday; University of Chicago Press, 1982) * ''Fragments'' (William Morrow; University of Chicago Press, 1984) * ''Mass'' (William Morrow, 1985) * ''Our Fathers' Shadows'' (William Morrow, 1987) * ''Legends' End'' (Hodder & Stoughton, 1990) * ''News Values: Ideas for an Information Age''. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. * ''Best of Jackson Payne: A Novel'' (Alfred Knopf; University of Chicago Press, 2000) * ''Abbeville'' (Unbridled Books, 2008) * ''What Is Happening to News: The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism''. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. — Rea
an excerpt
* Levi, Edward H. ''Restoring Justice: The Speeches of Attorney General Edward H. Levi'' Edited by Jack Fuller. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.

References

External links

Jack Fuller Papers
at

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