Everything about Robert L Bartley totally explained
Robert Leroy Bartley (October 12, 1937 - December 10, 2003) was the
editor of the opinion page of
The Wall Street Journal for more than 30 years. He won a
Pulitzer Prize for opinion writing and received the
Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2003.
Personal
Bartley was the son of a professor of veterinary medicine. He was born in
Marshall, Minnesota and grew up in
Ames, Iowa. Bartley received a bachelor's degree in journalism from
Iowa State University and a master's degree in political science from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison. He and his wife Edith had three daughters.
Professional
Bartley started at the Journal in 1962. After working as a staff reporter in the Chicago and Philadelphia bureaus, he became part of the editorial page staff in 1964. In 1972, he became editor of the editorial page, and in 1979 the editor of the Journal. In 1980, he won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. In 1982, John Tebbel, professor emeritus of journalism at
New York University, called Bartley "the most influential editorial writer of my time."
In 1983, Bartley was named a
vice president of the
Dow Jones & Company, the company that owned the Journal.
Bartley was the author of "The Seven Fat Years: And How to Do It Again," published in 1992, a book on the economic policy of the
Reagan administration.
In December 2002, Bartley stepped down as editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page. In December 2003, a week before Bartley died of cancer,
President George W. Bush announced that Bartley was being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor.
Further Information
Get more info on 'Robert L Bartley'.
|
External Link Exchanges
Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:
<a href="http://robert_l__bartley.totallyexplained.com">Robert L. Bartley Totally Explained</a>
Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned. |
