Jack William Fuller' (born October 12, 1946, Chicago, Illinois) is a Pulitzer Prize—winning journalist who spent nearly forty years working in newspapers. He began his journalism career as a copyboy for the Chicago Tribune. He became a war correspondent in Vietnam and a political reporter in Washington. He won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1986 for his editorials on constitutional issues in the Chicago Tribune.
From 1989 to 1997 he was editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune. From 1997 to 2005 he served as president and chief executive of the Tribune Publishing Company.
He is the author of seven novels and several books on journalism.
Convergence (University of Chicago Press, 1982) ISBN 978-0-226-26881-1
Fragments (University of Chicago Press, 1984) ISBN 978-0-226-26886-6
"Mass" (William Morrow, 1985) ISBN 0-688-04685-1
"Our Fathers' Shadows" (William Morrow, 1987) ISBN 0-340-39878-7
"Legends' End" (Hodder & Stoughton, 1990) ISBN 0-340-50982-1
News Values: Ideas for an Information Age (University of Chicago Press, 1996) ISBN 9780226268798
Best of Jackson Payne: A Novel (University of Chicago Press, 2000) ISBN 9780226268682
Abbeville (Unbridled Books, 2008) ISBN 978-1932961478
What Is Happening to News: The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism (University of Chicago Press, 2010) ISBN 9780226268989...Read an excerpt.