Neil King Jr.
Neil King Jr. | |
|---|---|
| Education | Columbia University (BA) Northwestern_University (MA) |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist and author |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting (2002) |
Neil King Jr. is an American journalist and author. He shared in the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting in 2002.[1] His first book, American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal, was published by HarperCollins in 2023.[2]
Heritage and early life
[edit]King was born in Boulder, Colorado, into a family that settled in Colorado in the 1870s. His great grandfather, Alfred Rufus King, was mayor of Delta, Colorado, and later served as a judge on the Colorado Court of Appeals.[3] His grandfather, Edward King, was the longtime dean of the University of Colorado Law School.[4]
Neil King attended Northwestern University and later graduated with a philosophy B.A. from Columbia University. He earned a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern.[5]
Journalistic career and awards
[edit]King started his journalism career in 1990 as a Washington, D.C.-based stringer for the Great Falls Tribune, covering topics such as land use disputes.[6] In the early 1990s he also worked at the Tampa Tribune and then the Prague Post in the Czech Republic.
In 1993, King became an East European correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, the start of a 23-year career at the Journal, most of it in Washington, DC. In Washington, King served as chief diplomatic correspondent, national political reporter, and finally as the paper’s global economics editor before leaving the paper in 2016.[7]
In 2002, King shared in the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting, awarded to The Wall Street Journal's staff for coverage of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the United States. King and co-author David S. Cloud were recognized for their article "U.S. Vows Retaliation as Attention Focuses on bin Laden."[8]
In 2012, King shared in a Gerald Loeb award for online enterprise reporting, reflecting his role in creating the Wall Street Journal's Jet Tracker Database[9], a service monitoring private planes' activity.[10]
American Ramble
[edit]In 2023, King published "American Ramble[11]," a book chronicling his 330-mile walk through backroads parts of the countryside between Washington D.C. and New York City. Washington Post reviewer Marianne Szegedy-Maszak hailed King for combining "a veteran reporter’s sharp curiosity and a historian’s discernment." [12]
King wrote the book at age 61, after surviving esophogeal cancer. On CBS's Sunday Morning program, host Jane Pauley described the book as the tale of "a man who went on ramble and discovered America along the way.[13]
Personal life
[edit]In 2022, King and journalist Tyler Maroney used canoes at night to cross all seven bodies of water in New York City's Central Park. The New Yorker described the two as "urban Shackletons" and chronicled their unauthorized trip in the magazine's Explorers Club section.[14]
King is married to Shailagh Murray and has two daughters. They live in Washington D.C.[15]
References
[edit]- ^ "The 2002 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Breaking News Reporting". pulitzer.org. Retrieved August 20, 2024.
- ^ King, Neil (April 4, 2023). American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0358701491.
- ^ "Judge Alfred R. King Dies in Denver Last Friday Morning". The Delta Independent. May 19, 1916.
- ^ https://www.denverpost.com/obituaries/neil-king-boulder-co/
- ^ https://www.allamericanspeakers.com/celebritytalentbios/Neil+King/396879
- ^ King Jr., Neil. "Montana, Idaho only states still fighting over wilderness". Great Falls Tribute.
- ^ https://www.wsj.com/news/author/neil-kingjr
- ^ David S. Cloud and Neil, King (September 12, 2001). "U.S. Vows Retaliation as Attention Focuses on Bin Laden". The Wall Street Journal.
- ^ "Jet Tracker". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved August 20, 2024.
- ^ https://blogs.anderson.ucla.edu/anderson/2012/06/2012-gerald-loeb-award-winners-announced-lifetime-achievement-award-goes-to-jerry-seib-and-winnie-ok.html
- ^ King, Neil (April 4, 2023). American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0358701491.
- ^ Szegedy-Maszak, Marianne (April 13, 2023). "A long walk from D.C. to New York traverses history, beauty and trash". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 20, 2024.
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5KZ-WZq8lw
- ^ McGrath, Charles (March 28, 2022). "A Secret Voyage Across the Seven Seas of Central Park". The New Yorker. Retrieved August 20, 2024.
- ^ https://www.markle.org/about-markle/expert/shailagh-murray/