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Dennis Bell (journalist)

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American journalist
Dennis Bell
Born(1948年08月29日)August 29, 1948
Died(1995年03月14日)March 14, 1995
Occupationjournalist
SpouseJacqueline Bell[1]

Dennis Bell (August 29 1948 – March 14, 1995) was an American journalist, best known for his award-winning series of the articles on famine in Ethiopia in 1984 for Newsday .[2] [1]

Early life and education

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Bell was born in Muskegon, Michigan to Ezra Douglas and Natalie VanArsdale Bell. After enlisting in the United States Army in 1968, he attended the University of Michigan for his post-secondary education in 1970. Bell attended Hofstra University for free because he worked as a school custodian. In addition, he joined the summer program for minority journalists at the Institute for Journalism Education at the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California.

Career

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After joining Newsday 's team in 1972, he held different positions including porter clerk and pressroom reporter while finally getting foreign assignments.[3] [2] One of them covered the famine in Ethiopia in 1984, together with reporter Josh Friedman and photographer Ozier Muhammad. A year after, they won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1985.[4] Bell later transferred to Newsday's Long Island desk, where he held the position of the assistant Suffolk County editor. Bell died of congestive heart failure and pneumonia at the age of 46.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Dennis Bell, a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter whose journalistic career be". The Associated Press. March 13, 1995. Retrieved 2020年09月21日.
  2. ^ a b Fischer 2014.
  3. ^ Wilson, Sibyl Collins (2020). "Bell, Dennis". African American Studies Center. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780195301731.013.39480. ISBN 978-0-19-530173-1 . Retrieved 2020年09月21日.
  4. ^ "Deaths". Tampa Bay Times. October 3, 2005. Retrieved 2020年09月21日.

Books

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Previously the Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting – International from 1942–1947
1942–1950


1951–1975
1976–2000
2001–2025


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