Date of Birth
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30-December-1911
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Place of Birth
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Salt Lake City
(Utah, United States of America, Salt Lake County, Area codes 801 and 385, Area code 801, Area code 385)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Profession
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Journalist, Writer, Editor, Author
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Alfred Friendly was an American journalist, editor and writer for the Washington Post. He began his career as a reporter with the Post in 1939 and became Managing Editor in 1955. In 1967 he covered the Mideast War for the Post in a series of articles for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1968. He is credited with bringing the Post from being a local paper to having a position of national prominence.
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