Paper Boy to Pulitzer: A Newsman’s Journey

Hughes, John. Paper Boy to Pulitzer: A Newsman’s Journey. Nebbadoon Press, 2014.

Hughes’ autobiography begins in his youth in London during the Great Depression and WWII bombing. After the war his family found Christian Science and moved to South Africa where he began his eventful journalism career. His profession eventually brought him to Boston joining The Christian Science Monitor where he began as a copy boy. He quickly worked up to African correspondent at a time when European colonialism was transitioning to African rule, focusing on his challenging experiences in the Belgian Congo. He also reports in detail his time in South Africa during apartheid. In 1964 Hughes moved to Asia for on-the-ground reporting on the Vietnam war, as well as his Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of Indonesia’s 1965 coup. In 1970 he returned to Boston to be Managing Editor and then Editor of the Monitor providing an insider’s view of the people and operations of the newspaper at its pinnacle. After leaving the Monitor in 1980, he was asked to serve in the federal government directing Voice of America and later serving as State Department Spokesman for George Shultz. Still later he became Director of Communications for the Secretary-General of the U.N. Hughes concluded his career teaching journalism at Brigham Young University.

ISBN-10: ‎ 1891331477
ISBN-13: ‎ 9781891331473

See also annotations:

“The Christian Science Monitor”: Its History, Mission and People by Keith S. Collins

Commitment to Freedom, The Story of “The Christian Science Monitor” by Erwin D. Canham