Thomas Winship

Thomas Winship (July 1, 1920 – March 14, 2002) was an American newspaper editor of The Boston Globe from 1965 until 1984. He helped raise the paper to the highest ranks and guided it to 12 Pulitzer Prizes as a result of the Globe's opposition to the Vietnam War and coverage of school desegregation in the 1970s.[1][2] The 12 Pulitzers won under Winship's leadership, beginning in 1966, were the first in the Globe's history.[3]

For the English footballer, see Tommy Winship.

After his retirement, he was the first senior fellow at the Gannett Center for Media Studies (now the Freedom Forum) and the founding chairman of the Center for Foreign Journalists.[2]

Winship's grandfather was an editor of The Boston Traveller. His father joined The Globe in 1911 as a reporter, and was named editor in 1955.[2]

Winship was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and soon after moved to Sudbury. He graduated from Belmont Hill School in 1938. He made the first ascent of Alaska's Mount Bertha in 1940.[4] He graduated from Harvard in 1942, where he founded the ski club.[2]

At the time of his death, he was being treated for lymphoma at Massachusetts General Hospital. He was survived by his wife Elizabeth Coolidge, sister Joanna Crawford, sons Laurence and Benjamin, daughters Margaret and Joanna, and eight grandchildren.[2]

References
  1. "Thomas Winship, American editor". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved September 28, 2019.
  2. Martin, Douglas (March 15, 2002). "Thomas Winship, Ex-Editor of Boston Globe, Dies at 81". The New York Times. Retrieved July 23, 2019.
  3. Allen, Scott (June 22, 2012). "A Distinguished History of Digging Up the Truth". The Boston Globe. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
  4. Bradford Washburn with Lew Freedman, Bradford Washburn An Extraordinary Life: The Autobiography of a Mountaineering Icon, 2005, Westwinds Press, chapter 12.


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