Awards & Winners

Gene Miller

Date of Birth 16-September-1928
Place of Birth Evansville
(Vanderburgh County, Indiana, Center Township, Illinois-Indiana-Kentucky tri-state area, United States of America, Area codes 812 and 930)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Gene G. Miller
Profession Journalist, Writer
Gene Miller was a longtime investigative reporter at The Miami Herald who won two Pulitzer Prizes for reporting that helped save innocent men on Florida's Death Row from execution. He was also a legendary editor, mentoring generations of young reporters in how to write crisp, direct, and entertaining stories. When he died of cancer in 2005, the Herald called him "the soul and the conscience of our newsroom."

Awards by Gene Miller

Check all the awards nominated and won by Gene Miller.

1976


Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting
Honored for : The Miami Herald
([Local General or Spot News Reporting] For his persistent and courageous reporting over eight and one-half years that led to the exoneration and release of two men who had twice been tried for murder and wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death in Florida.)

Nominations 1976 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime Invitation to a Lynching

1967


Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
([Local Investigative Specialized Reporting] For initiative and investigative reporting that helped to free two persons wrongfully convicted of murder.)