Bill Dwyre | |
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| Born | (1944-04-04)April 4, 1944 (age 80) Sheboygan, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Notre Dame |
| Subject | Sports |
Bill Dwyre (born April 7, 1944, inSheboygan, Wisconsin) is asportswriter and former newspaper sports editor. Notable for his long tenure as sports editor of theLos Angeles Times beginning in June 1981, he moved to the writing ranks full-time in June 2006,[1] but for virtually his whole career he has worked as both an editor and writer, and today[when?] writes several weekly columns for theLA Times.[2]
After a high-profile, multi-sport athletic career atSheboygan North High School, Dwyre went to theUniversity of Notre Dame, where he was a member of the tennis team and sports editor ofND Voice, the forerunner of the university’s current daily paper,The Observer. He graduated in 1966 with a degree inCommunication Arts and began his journalism career shortly thereafter, as a sports copy editor for theDes Moines Register until 1968. From 1968 to 1981 he worked at theMilwaukee Journal, where he was made sports editor in 1975. He moved to theLos Angeles Times as assistant sports editor, and three months later was promoted to sports editor.
Dwyre rose to national prominence with theLos Angeles1984 Summer Olympics, for which he mobilized a staff of more than 100, including 59 credentialed reporters, at that time the largest of its kind for Olympic coverage. The staff published 24 special daily editions, most of them 44 pages, of Olympic coverage in addition to the paper’s regular sports section. It was an unprecedented display of newspaper Olympic coverage for which Dwyre had seemingly boundless budgetary and personnel resources. The success of the ’84 Summer Games as reflected in the excellence of the L.A.Times’ coverage garnered Dwyre several awards, including National Editor of the Year from theNational Press Club inWashington, D.C.; the National Headliner Award from the Press Club ofAtlantic City; and the Los Angeles Times Award for Sustained Excellence, all conferred in 1985.
Recognition for Dwyre’s work on the 1984 Summer Olympic Games has been bookended by a host of local, regional and national honors. The most prestigious was theRed Smith Award from theAssociated Press Sports Editors in 1996 for service to sports journalism.[3] Other accolades include: the Wisconsin Sportswriter of the Year (1980); theLoyola Marymount Pride of Lions Award for Service to the Community (1993); the Powerade Sports Story of the Year from theNational Assn. of Sportscasters and Sportswriters for hisLos Angeles Times Magazine cover story on college basketball coach and social iconJohn Wooden (1999); the U.S. Tennis Writers Assn. Column of the Year award (2000) forAustralian Open coverage; the California Sportscasters Good Guy Award (2000); the California Golf Writers Good Guy Award (2003); the Arkansas Subiaco Academy Literary Award of Merit (2004); the Los Angeles Sports and Entertainment Commission Ambassador Award of Excellence for contributions to the city of Los Angeles (2005); the Associated Press Executive News Council’s top award for sports writing (2007); the John Wooden Pyramid of Excellence Award, in conjunction with the annual Wooden Classic Basketball Tournament (2008); California Sportswriter of the Year for 2009 from the National Assn. of Sportscasters and Sportswriters (2010);[4][5] the BNP Paribas Open Media Award, given annually in Indian Wells, Calif., one of two tennis tournaments, Miami Open the other, deemed only a notch below the four majors (2011);[6] the David F. Woods Award honoring the best Preakness Stakes story for the previous year (2011).[7]
Dwyre is a past president of the Associated Press Sports Editors;[8] a member of the Advisory Board of the University of Notre Dame'sJohn W. Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics and Democracy; and a member of the board of directors of Casa Colina Hospitals for Rehabilitation inPomona, California.[9] He has spoken at journalism classes at the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles, as well as more than a dozen times at the American Press Institute in Reston, Virginia.[10]
In addition to writing as a staff member, Dwyre wrote a monthly column forReferee magazine from 1972–2002, and has contributed articles to theHuffington Post,TWAAmbassador magazine andThe Korea Times. Having been the editor for theLos Angeles Times’ latePulitzer Prizewinning sportswriterJim Murray, Dwyre edited a book of Murray’s columns shortly after Murray’s death in 1998, titledThe Last of the Best.
Dwyre is married to the former Jill Jarvis and has two children, Amy and Patrick. He lives inSan Dimas, California.
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