WASHINGTON (AP) Walter R. Mears, who for 45 years fluidly and speedily wrote the news about presidential campaigns for The Associated Press and won a Pulitzer Prize doing it, has died. He was 87.
A longtime and many say legendary Associated Press writer has died. Walter R. Mears died Thursday in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, at 87. For 45 years Mears fluidly and speedily
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Over the past few years, I’ve dedicated my column to trying to educate readers about journalists and journalism, explaining how and why we do what we do.
One thing I may not have mentioned: Journalists, as a people, are big proponents of literacy, which makes March is Reading Month a bit like Christmas to us.
That’s why we, as an industry, donate to Newspapers in Education, which puts newspapers in classrooms so kids can learn about current events, practice reading, and use the newspaper in various projects.
One of my favorite experiences as a journalist was going back to my old high school as a Battle Creek Enquirer reporter and helping my eighth-grade English teacher and her students with a mock newspaper project.