Dan Malone
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Dan Malone is a United States journalist and a Pulitzer Prize winner for investigative reporting. Malone currently works for the Fort Worth Weekly, an alternative newspaper[1].
Malone worked as a reporter for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram before joining The Dallas Morning News in 1985. In 2002, he joined the staff of the Fort Worth Weekly.
Malone has taught journalism classes at Tarleton State University and at the University of North Texas as an adjunct professor, while also serving as a Hearst Visiting Professional-in-Residence for the University of Texas at Austin School of Journalism and Jurist for the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference of the Southwest[2].
[edit] Education
Malone is a 1978 graduate of the University of Texas at Austin where he earned a bachelor's degree in journalism. As a senior in college, malone was the editor-in-chief of The Daily Texan[3].
[edit] Awards
As a reporter for the The Dallas Morning News, Malone won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting, along with Lorraine Adams, in 1992 for his series of stories investigating police misconduct and abuses of power.
In 1992, Malone also was awarded first place in investigative reporting by the Institute of Southern Studies and first place in the freedom of information category by the Texas Associated Press Managing Editor’s Association.
Malone won the 1998 Thurgood Marshall Journalism Award[4].
In 2006, Malone was co-recipient of the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas’ James Madison Award[5].
[edit] References
- ^ "Fort Worth Weekly Hires Pulitzer Winner", April 5, 2002, Association of Alternative Newsweeklies
- ^ Journalist Dan Malone joins Tarleton communications program
- ^ UT-A Pulitzer Prize winners
- ^ "Death Penalty Information Center Honors Dan Malone and Howard Swindle for their Dallas Morning News series...", December 3, 1998,
- ^ "Tarleton instructor recipient of Freedom of Information Foundation award", Sep 8, 2006
