Pitt Book Center to Host March 24 Meet and Speak with Retired Senior Editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Clarke M. Thomas
PITTSBURGH—Clarke M. Thomas, retired senior editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, will take part in a Meet-and-Speak session and will sign copies of his new book, Front-Page Pittsburgh: Two Hundred Years of the Post-Gazette (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005), at noon March 24 at the University of Pittsburgh Book Center, 4000 Fifth Ave., Oakland.
First published as the Pittsburgh Gazette on Saturday, Aug. 12, 1786, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has survived name changes, ownership sales, mergers, and a competitive landscape once populated by more than 50 newspapers. Front-Page Pittsburgh looks at the paper's history from the Whiskey Rebellion to the news controversies of today.
Thomas, a combat infantryman in World War II, spent 43 years as a newspaperman in Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania. He received the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania President's Award in 1997 "in recognition of outstanding career achievement and contributions to Western Pennsylvania journalism."
This free public event is sponsored by the University Book Center and the University of Pittsburgh Press. For more information, contact Melissa Grube at the Book Center at 412-648-1453.
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