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Walter Horace Carter (January 20, 1921 – September 16, 2009) was an American newspaper publisher in Tabor City, North Carolina, whose paper won a 1953 Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the activities of the Ku Klux Klan and his editorials which opposed them. [1]
The two journalists were awarded the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. [9] The Tribune was the first weekly newspaper in the United States to win a Pulitzer. [10] [11] Carter later donated the Pulitzer to the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where it was on display as of 2009. [8]
Public Service: . Whiteville (N.C.) News Reporter and Tabor City (N.C.) Tribune, two weekly newspapers, for their successful campaign against the Ku Klux Klan, waged on their own doorstep at the risk of economic loss and personal danger, culminating in the conviction of over one hundred Klansmen and an end to terrorism in their communities.
The News Reporter won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1953, shared with the Tabor City Tribune, for reporting of Ku Klux Klan activities in Columbus County, NC. [1] [2] [3] The News Reporter had been owned by the Thompson/High family since 1938. [4] Les High and Stuart High Rogers sold the paper in 2021 to Justin Smith, the paper's ...
[41] The newspapers were the first weeklies to win a Pulitzer Prize. The name of the Tabor City Tribune was changed to the Tabor-Loris Tribune in 1996. The small W. Horace Carter Newspaper Museum in Tabor City at the Tabor-Loris Tribune offices has exhibits on Carter's life and work.
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Pulitzer Prize winner for International Reporting W. Horace Carter: 1949: Journalism: Pulitzer Prize winner for public service, owner and publisher of the Tabor City Tribune: Lenoir Chambers: 1914: Pulitzer Prize winner for editorial writing; editor of The Virginian-Pilot: Sarah Cohen: 1979: Economics: Pulitzer Prize winner for investigative ...