Pulitzer-winning journalist Mary Lou Forbes dies at 83

From: The Washington Times | June 29, 2009 

Longtime Washington Times’ Commentary Editor Mary Lou Forbes, a trailblazing journalist whose reporting on Virginia’s civil rights struggles won a Pulitzer Prize in 1959 and whose editorial leadership helped pave the way for women to rise in a once-male dominated profession, has died after a brief battle with cancer. She was 83. Mrs. Forbes’ career spanned more than six decades as a reporter, news chief and opinion editor, guiding hundreds of journalists from future Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein to nationally syndicated columnist Cal Thomas, whose column debuted in The Times 25 years ago under her tutelage. “The real thing about …

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