The Author

Credit: The Hingham Journal/Robin Chan
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Roy J. Harris Jr.
royharris@pulitzersgold.com
Roy J. Harris Jr., a senior editor for The Economist Group's CFO magazine,
has been a journalist for some of the nation's most respected news publications
for four decades. From 1971 to 1994 he served as a reporter and editor for the
Wall Street Journal, including six years as deputy chief of its fourteen-member
Los Angeles bureau.
The son of a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
Harris began his career working summers as a copyboy and later a reporter
for the
Post-Dispatch. In college, he served as managing editor of the Daily
Northwestern while attending Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism. After
graduation he took a job reporting for the Los Angeles Times, where one of
his assignments was helping cover the 1968 Democratic National Convention
in
Chicago.
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After being posted by the U.S. Army to Germany, where he edited a battalion
newspaper, Harris returned to Northwestern to earn his masters degree, and then
joined the Journal in Pittsburgh, covering the aluminum industry. In 1974 he
moved to the West Coast for the Journal and took over coverage of the aerospace
beat, while also writing about airlines, entertainment and sports-including the
1984 Summer Olympics. As deputy bureau chief, he helped coordinate coverage of
such stories as the 1992 race rioting that followed the police beating of
Rodney King, and the devastating 1994 Northridge earthquake.
During his 12 years in Boston with CFO, he served from 2006 to 2007 as
national president of an 800-member journalists' group, the American Society
of Business Publication Editors. But he retained his passion for the newspaper
business, regularly contributing articles on the Pulitzer Prizes to the
web site of the St. Petersburg, Florida-based Poynter Institute. He has
also taught journalism as an adjunct professor at Emerson College. His
research for Pulitzer's Gold began in 2002, when he returned to St. Louis
to make a presentation, on the hundredth anniversary of his father's birth,
about the five Public Service Pulitzers won by the Post-Dispatch. |
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Harris lives in Hingham, Massachusetts, with his wife Eileen Carol McIntyre,
senior director of investor relations and corporate communications for Cubist
Pharmaceuticals Inc. He has two sons, David McKenna Harris and R. J. Harris
III, and a stepson, Jesse D. Laymon.
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