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George Lockwood

Distinguished Professor
Phone: 225-578-2002

E-mail: eclockwood@aol.com 
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:: M.A., 1957, University of Minnesota, Journalism - Political Science

George J. Lockwood, farm boy, newspaper editor and lover of political cartoons, was Manship's first Fred J. Greer Chair in Media Ethics and Management (1998-2000). After serving 2 years as Fred Jones Greer Chair in Media Business and Ethics, George Lockwood was appointed as a Distinguished Professor in the Manship School.  Lockwood obtained a B.A., Journalism-American Studies from Syracuse University in 1953.  He spent 30 years on the Milwaukee Journal, retiring in 1986 as managing editor. As editor of the Journal's Sunday magazine, he directed a team that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service. His other awards include the Meeman Conservation Award and the Dion Henderson Associated Press Award.  Later he was a Gannett Distinguished Professor of journalism at Marshall University and served as executive editor of the St. Joseph (Mo.) News-Press from 1990-1995. At LSU, Lockwood organized the first Reilly Symposium on the subject "The Press at the Turn of the Century."

 Book: The Cartoons of R.A. Lewis.

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