Lynn Heinzerling
Lynn Louis Heinzerling | |
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Born | |
Died | November 23, 1983 | (aged 77)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of Akron |
Occupation | correspondent |
Lynn Louis Heinzerling (October 23, 1906 – November 21, 1983) was an American correspondent for the
Biography
Lynn Heinzerling was born in Birmingham, Ohio, and raised in Elyria. After attending the University of Akron in 1924– 1925, he enrolled at Ohio Wesleyan University. Heinzerling graduated in 1927 and served as Cleveland's Plain-Dealer correspondent for five years from 1928. He covered such stories as the Ohio River flood, the Little steel strike, and the Torso Murders. Later, Heinzerling entered the service of the Associated Press in Cleveland. He was traveling across Europe as an international correspondent from 1938 to 1945. On September 1, 1939, he was in Gdańsk, where he covered the early period of the German occupation. During the next years, he reported from Vienna, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Paris, Madrid, Lisbon, Rome, London, and Geneva, where he served as Associated Press editor-in-chief from 1948.[3][4][2]
In 1957, Heinzerling was named the head of the
References
- ^ "Lynn Heinzerling of Associated Press". The Pulitzer Prizes. 2020. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
- ^ a b c Fischer 2014.
- ^ "Lynn Heinzerling". ACANU. 2020. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
- ^ a b Fischer H. 2014.
Books
- Fischer (2014). Foreign Correspondents Report From Africa: Pulitzer Prize Winning Articles and Pictures. Vienna: LIT Verlag Münster. p. 189. ISBN 9783643904416.
- Fischer H. (2014). The Pulitzer Prize Archive: International reporting, 1928–1985. Vienna: Walter de Gruyter. p. 357. ISBN 9783598301711.