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Angelo Henderson, Pulitzer winner for WSJ, dies at 51

Angelo Henderson, a journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize while working for The Wall Street Journal in 1999, has died.

Max White of WXYZ in Detroit reports, “He was also a two-term Parliamentarian and two-term chapter President for the  National Association of Black Journalists.

“He was also a founding member in the Detroit 300, who’s focus is to help  communities organize and eradicate crime by policing targeted areas and pursuing  individuals committing crimes. Henderson, along with Raphael B. Johnson and  Malik Shabazz created the group out of the Detroit community’s frustration with  perpetual neighborhood crimes.

“In 1999, Henderson, working as deputy Detroit bureau chief of The Wall Street  Journal, was honored with a Pulitzer Prize for distinguished feature writing. He  wrote a narrative detailing the lives affected by an attempted drugstore  robbery. He was the 22nd African American to win the Pulitzer Prize.

“One year later he was honored by Columbia University as one of the nation’s  best reporters on race and ethnicity in America.

Read more here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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