Richard Cooper (journalist)

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Richard (Dick) Cooper, (born December 8, 1946)[1] is an American journalist retired from a 28-year career as reporter and editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer.[2] After attending Grand Rapids Community College and graduating from Michigan State University in 1969, Cooper joined the Rochester Times-Union; there, he and John Machacek won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Local General or Spot News Reporting for their coverage of the Attica Prison Riots.[1] He currently lives in Saint Michaels, Maryland, where he founded Cooper Media Associates and writes for the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum and other clients.[citation needed]

Cooper is an avid sailor and has owned several boats over the years. Currently, he sails Tusitala, a Hinckley Bermuda 40 yawl with a flag-blue hull, out of Saint Michaels, Maryland.[citation needed]

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  1. ^ a b "1972 Winners". The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org). Retrieved 24 Feb 2011.
  2. ^ Elizabeth A. Brennan; Elizabeth C. Clarage (1999). Who's who of Pulitzer Prize winners. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-57356-111-2.

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