Awards & Winners

Mark Thompson

Date of Birth 1953
Place of Birth New Haven
(Connecticut, United States of America, New Haven County, Area code 203, Area code 475)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Mark J. Thompson
Profession Journalist
Mark Thompson is an American investigative reporter who won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism. Thompson graduated from Boston University in 1975 and began his career where he grew up, at the Pendulum, in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. After a spell in Pontiac, Michigan, he moved to Washington in 1979, where he joined the Washington bureau of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. There he won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service recognizing a five-part series published in March 1984. Thompson covered, or uncovered, a design flaw in Bell helicopters that went uncorrected for a decade and led to the deaths of 250 U.S. servicemen; in consequence of his work, 600 Huey helicopters were grounded and modified. He joined Knight-Ridder Newspapers in 1986, where he reported extensively on the Persian Gulf War and the U.S. invasion of Panama. In 1994, he joined TIME magazine as defense correspondent, where he has written or co-written cover stories on the Army's use of prescription drugs on soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Marines' V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, the Army at the breaking point, the wisdom of restarting the military draft, and profiles of then-United States Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and then-General Tommy Franks.

Awards by Mark Thompson

Check all the awards nominated and won by Mark Thompson.

1985


Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
Honored for : Fort Worth Star-Telegram
(For reporting by Mark Thompson (reporter) which revealed that nearly 250 U.S. servicemen had lost their lives as a result of a design problem in helicopters built by Bell Helicopter - a revelation which ultimately led the Army to ground almost 600 Huey helicopters pending their modification.)

Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
For reporting which revealed that nearly 250 U.S. servicemen had lost their lives as a result of a design problem in helicopters built by Bell Helicopter-- a revelation which ultimately led the Army to ground almost 600 Huey helicopters pending their modification.