Richard (Dick) Cooper, (born December 8, 1946), is an American journalist retired from a 28-year career as reporter and editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer[1] . With John Machacek at the Rochester Times-Union, he won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Local General or Spot News Reporting, for coverage of the Attica Prison Riots[2]. He currently lives in Saint Michaels, Maryland, where he founded Cooper Media Associates and writes for the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum and other clients.
He is an avid sailor and has owned several boats over the years. Currently, he sails Tusitala, a Hinckley Bermuda 40 yawl with a flag-blue hull, out of Saint Michaels, Maryland.