Awards & Winners

Wallace Turner

Date of Birth 15-March-1921
Place of Birth Titusville
(Brevard County, Florida, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Journalist
Wallace Turner was an American journalist and government administrator. A native of Florida, he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1957 while working for The Oregonian in Portland, Oregon. Turner later worked in the Kennedy administration before returning to the newspaper business where he worked for The New York Times.

Awards by Wallace Turner

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1957


Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
([Local Reporting - No Edition Time] For their expose of vice and corruption in Portland involving some municipal officials and officers of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, Western Conference. They fulfilled their assignments despite great handicaps and the risk of reprisal from lawless elements.)