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James V. Risser

James V. Risser (born 1938) is an American journalist and Emeritus Professor of Communication at Stanford University.

Career[edit]

Risser worked for The Des Moines Register for 20 years after which he was a member of the Pulitzer Prize board. He was also the director for Knight Fellowships.[1] He has won two Pulitzer Prizes for National Reporting, one in 1976 and the other in 1979. A Stanford University Prize was named after him, called the "Knight-Risser Prize for Western Environmental Journalism".[2][3]

1979: "for a series on farming damage to the environment".[4]

Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting

1977: (with ) Raymond Clapper Memorial Award "for a story disclosing production of unsanitary meat for the school lunch program."[5]

George Anthan

1976: "for disclosing large-scale corruption in the American grain exporting trade".[6]

Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting

1975: [7]

Raymond Clapper Memorial Award

1971: Honorable Mention[7]

Raymond Clapper Memorial Award