W. Hodding Carter, III.(--1966--)(honored by Committee to Protect Journalists)(Brief article)

W. Hodding Carter, III was honored by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) when he received the Burton Benjamin Memorial Award for lifetime achievement in the cause of press freedom at an awards ceremony in New York City in November. Carter spent almost 18 years as a reporter, editorial writer, editor and associate publisher of his family's newspaper, the Delta Democrat Times, in Greenville, Mississippi.

He went on to work in Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter's presidential campaigns, served as spokesman for the State Department and as assistant secretary of state for public ...

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