Mike Toner
Mike Toner was the recipient of the 1993
Background
Toner was born in 1944 in Le Mars, Iowa and grew up in north west and north central Iowa. He currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Education
Toner graduated from Humboldt High School in Humboldt, Iowa in 1962. He received a B.A degree in journalism and mass communications from the University of Iowa in 1966 and a M.S. from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 1967. He was a Professional Journalism Fellow at Stanford University in 1973.[1]
Professional
Toner worked as a photographer for The Daily Iowan from 1962 to 1966. He was a night desk editor for United Press International in Chicago in 1966. He was the Key West bureau chief for the Miami Herald in 1966 and served as a general assignment reporter, copy editor, assistant city editor and science/environment/aerospace reporter at the Herald from 1967 to 1984. He was the science editor for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution from 1984 to 1991 and was a science writer for the newspaper there until he retired in 2004. He has since been a frequent contributor to American Archaeology magazine and Archaeology magazine.
His reporting is featured in William David Sloan's "Masterpieces of Reporting" (1997) and in the National Association of Science Writer's "A Field Guide for Science Writers" (1997).
Awards
In 1993 Toner won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism for a series of articles about
References
- ^ "Michael F. Toner (MSJ67)". Medill Northwestern University. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
- ^ "Gene S. Stuart Award". Society for American Archaeology. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
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