William Gaines (professor)
William C. Gaines (November 1, 1933 – July 20, 2016)
Early life and career
Gaines earned a bachelor's degree in broadcasting at
Pulitzer Prize
Gaines' first Pulitzer Prize came in 1976 as a member of an investigative team at the Tribune looking into unsafe medical practices at some Chicago hospitals.
In 1988, Gaines and colleagues Dean Baquet and Ann Marie Lipinski won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for a series on the self-interest and waste that plagued the Chicago City Council.
Gaines was nominated in 1979 for a series about the problems of the elderly. Gaines and David Jackson were nominated in 1996 for stories that probed questionable business dealings of the Nation of Islam.
Watergate informant "uncovered"
Gaines led a study with several of his students in 2003 to determine the identity of Watergate informant Deep Throat. Soon after the study, he set up a website, about the way in which he "uncovered" one of the great enduring mysteries of modern U.S. Politics.
He came to the conclusion that
On May 31, 2005, the actual Deep Throat,
On his website, Deep Throat Uncovered, Gaines has written about a confrontation with John Dean about the identity of Deep Throat:
- He declined to respond to Smithsonian Magazine. John Dean has been steadfast in arguing Fielding would not have lied to him about being a source for the Post, and Dean bet Professor Gaines $100 that Gaines was wrong. Gaines took the bet.
Publications
Gaines has written several books:
- Reich, Howard and William Gaines (2004). Jelly's Blues: The Life, Music, and Redemption of Jelly Roll Morton. Da Capo Press ISBN 0-306-81350-5
- Gaines, William (1998). Investigative Reporting for Print and Broadcast Wadsworth Publishing. ISBN 0-8304-1469-X
References
- ^ Roberts, Sam (22 July 2016). "William Gaines, Prizewinning Investigative Reporter, Dies at 82". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
- ^ "William Gaines, former Tribune investigative reporter, dies at 82".
- William Gaines profile
- Chamberlain, Craig (July 11, 2001). Pulitzer Prize-winner Bill Gaines named to Knight Chair in Journalism. U of Illinois News Bureau
- Deep Throat Uncovered archive
- Bebow, John (March 2002). Digging Deep for Deep Throat. American journalism Review
- Chamberlain, Craig (April 22, 2003). Journalism professor, students identify 'Deep Throat'. U of Illinois News Bureau
- Chamberlain, Craig (May 1, 2003). ‘Deep Throat’ unmasked: UI journalism professor, students identify key Watergate source. U of Illinois News Bureau
- Miner, Michael (June 10, 2005). Deception in the Name of Truth. Chicago Reader