Ronnie Dugger

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Ronnie Dugger (born 1931) is an American progressive journalist.

Dugger attended the

University of Texas and was editor of The Daily Texan 1950–1951.[1] He was the founding editor of The Texas Observer
from 1954 to 1961. Later he served as the Observer's publisher, spending more than 40 years with the political news magazine.

Dugger has published hundreds of articles in Harper's Magazine, The Nation, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Progressive and other periodicals.[2]

In 2011 Dugger won the George Polk Award in recognition of his lifelong achievements in journalism.[3] The following year he was dubbed the "godfather of progressive journalism in Texas" in an in-depth feature published in the Austin American-Statesman by Brad Buchholz.[4]

Political involvement

In 1952 Dugger, along with

communists.[5]
Dugger criticized
Brown & Root and Johnson) became common knowledge as his political identity changed from left to right before everyone's eyes", Dugger said.[5]

In 1996, Ronnie Dugger also co-founded The Alliance for Democracy, a national grassroots populist organization. [3]

In 2000 Dugger sought the Green Party's nomination for the U.S. Senate in New York.[6]

Dugger used his 2011 George Polk Award acceptance speech to question the nuclear policy of mutually assured destruction, saying, "Why are nuclear weapons called weapons of mass destruction when morally they are weapons of mass murder?" [2] This continued his long vocal concern about nuclear weapons going back to his questioning of LBJ about how many would be killed in a nuclear war up to expressing doubts when President Obama calls for a nuclear-free world.

The Texas Observer

Dugger and his friends decided to build The Texas Observer into an independent liberal weekly paper. He said "I sought to practice journalism according to three basic standards, accuracy, fairness instead of 'objectivity,' and moral seriousness."[5] He went on to mentor and influence progressive Texas journalists Willie Morris, Molly Ivins, Billy Lee Brammer, Lawrence Goodwyn, Kaye Northcott, and Jim Hightower.

Teaching career

Dugger taught at the

University of Illinois. He also held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.[3]

Selected works

  • Dark Star, Hiroshima Reconsidered (World, 1967)
  • Our Invaded Universities (W.W. Norton, 1973)
  • The Politician: The Life and Times of Lyndon Johnson (W.W. Norton, 1982)
  • On Reagan (McGraw Hill, 1983),
  • Edited Three Men in Texas: Bedichek, Webb, and Dobie for UT Press

References

  1. ^ "UT History Central, Daily Texan Editors". Texas Exes. Retrieved 2014-12-21.
  2. ^ a b Dave Mann (2014-05-01). "Ronnie Dugger: Godfather of Progressive Journalism in Texas". The Texas Observer. Retrieved 2014-12-21.
  3. ^ a b c Thorne Webb Dreyer (2012-06-15). "Texas Observer Founding Editor Ronnie Dugger". The Rag Blog. Retrieved 2014-12-21.
  4. ^ Brad Buchholz (2012-04-29). "Ronnie Dugger: The free man". Austin American-Statesman. Archived from the original on 2012-10-17. Retrieved 2021-07-14.
  5. ^ a b c "Ronnie Dugger". Spartacus Educational. Retrieved 2014-12-21.
  6. ^ Robert Bryce (2000-08-25). "The Candidate From Brown & Root". The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved 2014-12-23.
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