Clarence Page

reporter, 1989 Pulitzer Prize

Clarence Page, the 1989 Pulitzer Prize winner for *Commentary*, has been a columnist and a member of *the Chicago Tribune*'s editorial board since 1984. His column is syndicated nationally by Tribune Media Services. His articles have been published in *Chicago Magazine*, *The Chicago Reader*, *Washington Monthly*, *New Republic*, *The Wall Street Journal*, *New York Newsday*, and *Emerge*. He has appeared as a guest on ABC's *Nightline*, *The Today Show*, and *Sunday Morning with David Brinkley*. Page is also an occasional guest panelist on *The McLaughlin Group*, a regular contributor of essays to *News Hour with Jim Lehrer*, and an occasional host of documentaries on PBS. Page's awards include a 1980 Illinois UPI award for community service for an investigative series entitled *The Black Tax *and the Edward Scott Beck Award for overseas reporting of a 1976 series on the changing politics of Southern Africa . Page also participated in a 1972 *Chicago Tribune* Task Force series on vote fraud which won the Pulitzer Prize. He has received awards from the Illinois and Wisconsin chapters of the American Civil Liberties Union for his columns on civil liberties and constitutional rights. He was inducted into the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame in 1992. Page received his Bachelor of Science degree in journalism from Ohio University in 1969, where he was the commencement speaker in 1993. He has received honorary doctorates from Columbia College in Chicago , Lake Forest College , and Nazareth College in Rochester.