Bill Stroud, Member Of Pulitzer Prize Winning Team That Covered Three Mile Island, 65
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PyrateJohn
Jun 13, 2008, 8:29:12 AM6/13/08
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BALA CYNWYD, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Bill Stroud, a member of a Pulitzer
Prize-winning team at the Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] Inquirer, has
died. He was 65.
Stroud, who became an expert on use of computers in newspaper
publishing, died Friday of prostate cancer at Roxborough Memorial
Hospital in Philadelphia.
Stroud was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of
the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant.
William H. Stroud was born on a farm outside McGehee, Arkansas, where
his mother was an English teacher. He followed two brothers into
journalism and became a reporter on the regional desk of Pine Bluff
(Arkansas) Commercial in 1965, after graduating from the University
of
Iowa with a bachelor's degree in history.
Stroud worked at the Chattanooga (Tennessee) Times and the St. Louis
[Missouri] Post-Dispatch before moving to Pennsylvania to join the
staff of the Inquirer.
Prize-winning team at the Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] Inquirer, has
died. He was 65.
Stroud, who became an expert on use of computers in newspaper
publishing, died Friday of prostate cancer at Roxborough Memorial
Hospital in Philadelphia.
Stroud was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of
the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant.
William H. Stroud was born on a farm outside McGehee, Arkansas, where
his mother was an English teacher. He followed two brothers into
journalism and became a reporter on the regional desk of Pine Bluff
(Arkansas) Commercial in 1965, after graduating from the University
of
Iowa with a bachelor's degree in history.
Stroud worked at the Chattanooga (Tennessee) Times and the St. Louis
[Missouri] Post-Dispatch before moving to Pennsylvania to join the
staff of the Inquirer.
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