Awards & Winners

Richard Cooper

Richard Cooper, is an American journalist retired from a 28-year career as reporter and editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer. He and John Machacek of the Rochester Times-Union won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Local General or Spot News Reporting for their coverage of the Attica Prison Riots. He currently lives in Saint Michaels, Maryland, where he founded Cooper Media Associates and writes for the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum and other clients. He is an avid sailor and has owned several boats over the years. Currently, he sails Tusitala, a Hinckley Bermuda 40 yawl with a flag-blue hull, out of Saint Michaels, Maryland.

Awards by Richard Cooper

Check all the awards nominated and won by Richard Cooper.

1972


Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting
Honored for : Rochester Times-Union
(For their coverage of the Attica, New York prison riot.)