Howard M. Norton (May 30, 1911 – March 12, 1994) was an American journalist whose work won a

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. Howard Norton was born in

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. He grew up in

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, and he attended the

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for college. In 1933, he graduated with a bachelor's degree in journalism. After graduation, he moved to Baltimore and became a Foreign correspondent for ''

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''. Norton wrote a series of articles "dealing with the administration of unemployment compensation in Maryland, resulting in convictions and pleas of guilty in criminal court of 93 persons." His work won the

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for ''The Baltimore Sun''."Public Service"
The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-10-28. Norton died of a stroke in Wilmington, North Carolina on March 12, 1994.

Awards

* Pulitzer Prize for Public Service – 1947, ''The Baltimore Sun'', "for its series of articles by Howard M. Norton dealing with the administration of unemployment compensation in Maryland, resulting in convictions and pleas of guilty in criminal court of 93 persons" * Alumni of Distinction, University of Florida – 1979

References

;Other sources
"Howard Norton Dies; Pulitzer Prize Winner"
''The Washington Post'', March 13, 1994. Archived 2011-06-05. Retrieved 2013-10-28. — lead paragraph at Bookrags HighBeam
1979 Alumni of Distinction
College of Journalism and Communications, University of Florida

External links

Howard M. Norton papers
at the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Norton, Howard M. 1911 births 1994 deaths American male journalists 20th-century American journalists The Baltimore Sun people University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications alumni Journalists from Florida Place of birth missing 20th-century American non-fiction writers 20th-century American male writers