John M. Crewdson
John M. Crewdson (born December 15, 1945) is an American journalist. He won a Pulitzer Prize for The New York Times, where he worked for 12 years. He subsequently spent 26 years in a variety of positions at the Chicago Tribune.[1]
Early life
He attended public schools in
Career
Crewdson joined
In 1982 Crewdson joined the
In 1996, Crewdson authored a 12-page special report for the Tribune about commercial airplanes' inadequate medical equipment for passenger health emergencies. That report, which prompted the commercial airlines to begin carrying portable defibrillators and other emergency medical equipment, eventually saved dozens of lives and was one of three finalists for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.[4]
Following 9/11 Crewdson published numerous Tribune articles about terrorism, including more than a dozen revealing previously unpublished details of the CIA’s illegal "rendition" of Abu Omar, a Milanese Imam, from Italy to Egypt. AS a result of Crewdson's reporting, Abu Omar was released after four years in an Egyptian prison where he had been held without charges and tortured. More than two dozen American and Italian intelligence officers, including several senior officials, were later convicted of kidnapping in that case by an Italian court.
In 2007, Crewdson wrote an in-depth report on the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty that killed 34 Americans and injured over 170. The piece was entitled, "Tribune Special Report: The Strike on the USS Liberty: New revelations in attack on American spy ship," and the drop deck said, "Veterans, documents suggest U.S., Israel didn't tell full story of deadly '67 incident."[5]
In 2012, Crewdson joined the investigative team at the Project On Government Oversight, a non-partisan government watchdog nonprofit.[6] While there, he helped write a report entitled "Drug Problems: Dangerous Decision-Making at the FDA." The report and its associated work won the Society of Professional Journalists' 2015 Sigma Delta Chi Award for excellence in journalism for independent non-deadline journalism.[7] [8]
Pulitzer Prize
Crewdson was the recipient of the 1981
Books
John Crewdson has written three books.
- The Tarnished Door: The New Immigrants and the Transformation of America ISBN 978-0-8129-1042-1(Times Books, 1983) Looks at the world of illegal aliens residing in the United States and explores topics including the chaos, inadequacy, and corruption of American immigration policy and service (New York Times Notable Book for 1983).
- By Silence Betrayed: Sexual Abuse of Children in America (Little Brown & Co: 1988) ISBN 978-0-316-16094-0Interviews with experts and victims (New York Times Notable Book for 1988).
- Science Fictions: A Scientific Mystery, a Massive Cover-Up, and the Dark Legacy of Robert Gallo ISBN 978-0-316-09004-9(Back Bay Books, 2003)
References
- ^ https://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200901u/fate-of-newspaper-journalism James Warren, Atlantic Monthly"When No News Is Bad News"
- ^ "Science Fictions".
- ^ "Science Fictions".
- ^ "Science Fictions".
- ^ "New revelations in attack on American spy ship".
- ^ "Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist John Crewdson Joins POGO Investigative Team". www.pogo.org. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
- ^ "Drug Problems: Dangerous Decision-Making at the FDA". Project On Government Oversight. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
- ^ "Sigma Delta Chi Awards - Society of Professional Journalists". www.spj.org. Retrieved 2018-07-25.