Gaylord Shaw

Journalism career[edit]

While in college, Shaw began his journalism career as a police reporter for the Constitution-Press in Lawton.^[3] In 1962, at the age of twenty, he joined the Associated Press's Oklahoma City bureau.^[1][3] In 1966, he joined the Associated Press's Washington, D.C. office to work as a deskman, and from 1967 to 1971 he was a member of an Associated Press special assignment team focused mainly on investigative reporting.^[3] In March 1975, he began working for the Los Angeles Times in their Washington bureau.^[3] In 1978, he won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series of articles he wrote for the Los Angeles Times about unsafe dams across the United States.^[1][2] He has also been credited with breaking the news that President Richard Nixon was going to resign.^[1] He earned the 1980 Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers for coverage of the U.S. energy crisis.^[4][5] In 1988, he joined Newsday as their Washington bureau chief, where he oversaw a Pulitzer Prize-winning story about the Persian Gulf War in 1991.^[2] In 1997, he was part of a large team of reporters that won another Pulitzer Prize for a story about the crash of TWA Flight 800, for spot news reporting.^[1][2] He retired in 2002.^[1]