John Strohmeyer (June 26, 1924 β March 3, 2010) won the 1972
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing βfor his editorial campaign to reduce racial tensions in Bethlehem.β
Strohmeyer was born in
Boston, Massachusetts. After working as a night reporter for the now-defunct ''Bethlehem Globe-Times'' of
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania while attending
Moravian College, he spent three years in the
United States Navy during
World War II, ultimately attaining the rank of
lieutenant. A graduate of
Muhlenberg College (1947) and the
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (1948), Strohmeyer was a
Nieman Fellow at
Harvard University during the 1952β1953 academic year while employed by ''
The Providence Journal''. In 1956, he returned to Bethlehem, where he served as editor of the ''Globe-Times'' until 1984.
[ He won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship in 1984 to research and write about the decline of the American steel industry, a project that evolved into ''Crisis in Bethlehem: Big Steel's Struggle to Survive'' (Adler & Adler, 1986; University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994).
In 1992, Robert Atwood recruited Strohmeyer to teach journalism at the University of Alaska Anchorage in a position endowed by Atwood. While there, Strohmeyer wrote ''Extreme Conditions: Big Oil and the Transformation of Alaska''.][ Strohmeyer also wrote Atwood's biography, which was never published due to a dispute which arose after Atwood's death between Strohmeyer and Atwood's daughter Elaine.]
John Strohmeyer died of heart failure on March 3, 2010, in Crystal River, Florida.[
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