Jack William Fuller (October 12, 1946 – June 21, 2016)^[1] was an American journalist who spent nearly forty years working in newspapers and was the author of seven novels and two books on journalism.

Fuller was born inChicago, Illinois.^[1] He was a 1964 alumnus ofHomewood-Flossmoor High School in Flossmoor, Illinois, and a graduate of Northwestern'sMedill School of Journalism andYale Law School.

He began his journalism career as a copyboy for theChicago Tribune. Later he became a police reporter, a war correspondent in Vietnam, and a Washington correspondent. He worked for City News Bureau of Chicago,The Chicago Daily News,Pacific Stars and Stripes, andThe Washington Post, as well as theTribune. Fuller won thePulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1986 for hisTribune editorials on constitutional issues.^[2][3]

During the administration of President Gerald Ford, Fuller served as Special Assistant to United States Attorney GeneralEdward Levi.

From 1989^[4] to 1997 he was editor and then publisher of theChicago Tribune. From 1997^[5] to 2005 he served as president of theTribune Publishing Company.

He served on the board of theUniversity of Chicago and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Fuller died of cancer on June 21, 2016, at the age of 69.^[6]

• Convergence (Doubleday; University of Chicago Press, 1982)ISBN 978-0-226-26881-1
• Fragments (William Morrow; 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. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.ISBN 9780226268798
• Best of Jackson Payne: A Novel (Alfred Knopf; University of Chicago Press, 2000)ISBN 978-0-226-26868-2
• Abbeville (Unbridled Books, 2008)ISBN 978-1-932961-47-8
• What Is Happening to News: The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.ISBN 9780226268989 — Readan excerpt.
• Levi, Edward H.Restoring Justice: The Speeches of Attorney General Edward H. Levi Edited by Jack Fuller. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.ISBN 9780226041315

• Jack Fuller Papers atthe Newberry Library
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