William K. Tuohy
Best daily newspaper or wire service reporting from abroad
AWARD DATE: 1969
AWARD NAME: Best Daily Newspaper or Wire Service Reporting from Abroad
AWARD RECIPIENT: William K. Tuohy
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: Los Angeles Times
AWARD HONORED WORK: Middle East coverage
As foreign news attention has broadened from its almost exclusive “fix” on Vietnam to include the renewed and increased hostilities between Israel and the Arab nations, so have the reporting talents of Los Angeles Times correspondent William K. Tuohy.
Last year, his reportage of Vietnam earned him the Pulitzer Prize. This year, OPC judges selected him as winner of the award for best daily newspaper or wire service reporting from abroad for his “wide-ranging coverage of the Middle East.”
Tuohy, Beirut bureau chief for the Times since December 1968, is regarded as one of the most knowledgeable correspondents in both the Middle East and Far East. He covered the Vietnam conflict both as a Times reporter and Newsweek’s Saigon bureau chief, over a four-year period. As Newsweek assistant national affairs editor, Tuohy wrote cover stories on such subjects as President Kennedy, Senator Goldwater, and the missile crisis. He also was the magazine’s national political correspondent covering the Republican Presidential campaign. He started his reporting career with the San Francisco Chronicle in 1952, after his graduation from Northwestern University.
He was born in Chicago in 1926.
His byline has appeared in Reader’s Digest, the New York Times Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, Pageant, The Washington Post, and The New York Herald Tribune.
JUDGES: Angelo Natale, Edwin Tetlow, Whitman Bassow