Occupation Writer and Reporter Role Journalist Education University of Florida | Name Howard Norton Died March 12, 1994 | |
Born May 30, 1911 ( 1911-05-30 ) Awards Pulitzer Prize for Public Service | ||
Howard M. Norton (May 30, 1911 – March 12, 1994) was an American journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize.
Howard Norton grew up in Florida, and he attended the University of Florida for college. In 1933, he graduated with a Bachelor's degree in journalism. After graduation he moved to Baltimore and became a Foreign correspondent for The Baltimore Sun.
Norton wrote a series of articles "dealing with the administration of unemployment compensation in Maryland, resulting in convictions and pleas of guilty in criminal court of 93 persons." For that work he and the Sun won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1947.
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