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Danny Frank Malone (born January 22, 1955) is an American journalist, an investigative reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize. Malone currently works for the Fort Worth Weekly, an alternative newspaper.[1]

Malone worked as a reporter for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram before joining The Dallas Morning News in 1985. In 2002, he joined the staff of the Fort Worth Weekly.

Malone has taught journalism classes at Tarleton State University and at the University of North Texas as an adjunct professor, while also serving as a Hearst Visiting Professional-in-Residence for the UT-Austin journalism program and Jurist for the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference of the Southwest (associated with the Mayborn School of Journalism at UNT).[2]

Malone is a graduate of Kimball High School in Dallas and the University of Texas at Austin.[3]

Malone and Lorraine Adams of The Dallas Morning News shared the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, citing "reporting that charged Texas police with extensive misconduct and abuses of power".[4]

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Journalist

Journalist

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Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an award administered by Columbia University for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher. Prizes are awarded annually in twenty-one categories. In twenty of the categories, each winner receives a certificate and a US$15,000 cash award. The winner in the public service category is awarded a gold medal.

Fort Worth Weekly

Fort Worth Weekly

Fort Worth Weekly is an alternative weekly newspaper that serves the Greater Fort Worth area.

Alternative newspaper

Alternative newspaper

An alternative newspaper is a type of newspaper that eschews comprehensive coverage of general news in favor of stylized reporting, opinionated reviews and columns, investigations into edgy topics and magazine-style feature stories highlighting local people and culture. Its news coverage is more locally focused, and their target audiences are younger than those of daily newspapers. Typically, alternative newspapers are published in tabloid format and printed on newsprint. Other names for such publications include alternative weekly, alternative newsweekly, and alt weekly, as the majority circulate on a weekly schedule.

Corpus Christi Caller-Times

Corpus Christi Caller-Times

The Corpus Christi Caller-Times is the newspaper of record for Corpus Christi, Texas.

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram is an American daily newspaper serving Fort Worth and Tarrant County, the western half of the North Texas area known as the Metroplex. It is owned by The McClatchy Company.

The Dallas Morning News

The Dallas Morning News

The Dallas Morning News is a daily newspaper serving the Dallas–Fort Worth area of Texas, with an average print circulation of 65,369. It was founded on October 1, 1885 by Alfred Horatio Belo as a satellite publication of the Galveston Daily News, of Galveston, Texas. Historically, and to the present day, it is the most prominent newspaper in Dallas.

Tarleton State University

Tarleton State University

Tarleton State University is a public research university with its main campus in Stephenville, Texas. It is a founding member of the Texas A&M University System and enrolled over 14,000 students in the fall of 2020. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity".

Adjunct professor

Adjunct professor

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Justin F. Kimball High School

Justin F. Kimball High School

Justin F. Kimball High School is a public secondary school in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas, Texas, United States. It enrolls students in grades 9–12, and is a part of the Dallas Independent School District. The school is named in honor of Justin Ford Kimball, a prominent citizen of Dallas, Texas, former school superintendent, and founder of a predecessor of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. In 2015, the school was rated "Met Standard" by the Texas Education Agency.

Lorraine Adams

Lorraine Adams

Lorraine Adams is an American journalist and novelist. As a journalist, she is known as a contributor to the New York Times Book Review, and a former contributor to The Washington Post. As a novelist, she is known for the award-winning Harbor and its follow-up, The Room and the Chair.

Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

The Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting has been awarded since 1953, under one name or another, for a distinguished example of investigative reporting by an individual or team, presented as a single article or series in a U.S. news publication. It is administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City.

Books

  • America's Condemned: death row inmates in their own words, by Malone and Howard Swindle (Kansas City: A. McMeel Pub, 1999) ISBN 0-836281985[5]

Source: "Dan Malone", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2022, February 21st), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Malone.

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References
  1. ^ "Fort Worth Weekly Hires Pulitzer Winner" Archived 2006-10-04 at the Wayback Machine. April 5, 2002. Association of Alternative Newsweeklies.
  2. ^ "Journalist Dan Malone joins Tarleton communications program". Tarleton State University. 2006. Retrieved 2013-11-06.
  3. ^ OAK CLIFF, Dallas, Texas – Famous People. Archived November 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "Investigative Reporting". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-04.
  5. ^ "America's condemned {...}". Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2013-11-04.
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WARNING: WorldCat mixes works by multiple people named Dan Malone. LC differentiates him as 'Malone, Dan, 1955–' but credits his book to 'Malone, Dan' undifferentiated.

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