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Maria Henson

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Maria Henson, a 1994 Nieman Fellow, won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1992 and edited the Sacramento Bee's 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial series about Hetch Hetchy. She teaches journalism and serves as vice president and editor-at-large at Wake Forest University

“I think that the dying pray at the last not ‘please,’ but ‘thank you,’ as a guest thanks a host at the door.”

Why is it great? This is exciting — a guest submission from Pulitzer Prize winner Maria Henson, whose series of editorials on battered women in Kentucky was awarded the prize…
February 8, 2017
"Why's this so good?" No. 39: Gay Talese diagnoses Frank Sinatra

"Why's this so good?" No. 39: Gay Talese diagnoses Frank Sinatra

Just shoot me now.That might be a normal journalist’s reaction to news that the subject of a mega-profile for a magazine cover story has declined to be interviewed for the…
April 24, 2012