Wendell Rawls, Jr.
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Wendell Rawls, Junior, is a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter and editor. His career spans more than 35 years in journalism and media, beginning in 1967 at the Nashville Tennessean.
In 2005 he became managing director of the Center for Public Integrity, an investigative nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C., and in May 2006 became its executive director.
He was the first national correspondent at The Philadelphia Inquirer (where he won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1977); was a Washington correspondent and then Southern Bureau chief of The New York Times; and assistant managing editor for news at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He also won the National Headliner Award for Outstanding Public Service, the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Award Grand Prize, the Heywood Broun Journalism Award and several other awards. While he was an editor in Atlanta, his staff produced a Pulitzer Prize winner and four additional Pulitzer Prize finalists in two years. He is the author of one book, Cold Storage, has written for magazines, motion pictures and episodic television (Law & Order) and produced several television movies. He was a professor in the School of Journalism at Middle Tennessee State University. He occupied the Seigenthaler Chair of Excellence in First Amendment Studies at MTSU in 2001.
Rawls attended Baylor School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Middle Tennessee State University.
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- The Center for Public Integrity (http://www.publicintegrity.org/about/about.aspx?act=wrawls).
Mr. Rawls was enrolled at Vanderbilt University (not Middle Tennessee State University) from 1959 through l968. He received a BA in history from Vanderbilt in 1970.
