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Mr. Jack William Fuller is an independent journalist and writer. He was formerly the President of Tribune Publishing Co., starting in 1997. He started as a copyboy at the Chicago Tribune when he was a 16-year old high school student and later served as a Tribune reporter in Chicago and Washington, D.C. As editor of the editorial page of the newspaper, he won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1986. In 1989, he became editor of the Chicago Tribune and later was appointed publisher and chief executive officer. He has worked for the Chicago Daily News and Washington Post, and as a Vietnam war correspondent for Pacific Stars and Stripes when he was a drafted into the U.S. Army. During President Gerald Ford's administration, Fuller was the Special Assistant to United States Attorney General Edward Levi. He is on the board of directors of the MacArthur Foundation and a trustee of the University of Chicago. He has published eight novels and two books of non-fiction, one of which,What Is Happening to News: The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism, earned him the Goldsmith Prize. Other recognitions and awards include the Vietnam Veterans of America Excellence in the Arts Award and an Honorary Doctorate from Northwestern University.