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Jeff Lyon won thePulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1987, forThe Chicago Tribune.
Lyon was born inChicago in 1945. He studied at theFrancis W. Parker High School and graduated with a BSJ from theMedill School of Journalism atNorthwestern University. He is married to Bonita Brodt who is a feature writer for theTribune. The couple has one daughter and live inChicago.[1]
Lyon first worked atThe Miami Herald and then moved back to Chicago to begin work at both worked at Chicago’s American andChicago Today for eight years. Following that he began work at theTribune as well as its Sunday magazine. In 1976 he became acolumnist for that journal and then five years later a feature writer.[2] Lyon held the role ofDeputy Editor at theTribune and Director of the science writing program at Chicago’sColumbia College.
Lyon won the Pulitzer Prize, together with Peter Gorner, for The Chicago Tribune “for [the seven part ‘Altered Fates, The Promise of Gene Therapy’ 1986] series on the promises of gene therapy, which examined the implications of this revolutionary medical treatment.” According toTribune Editor James D. Squires, the Altered Fates series “is an outstanding example of the kind of excellence in journalism symbolized by the Pulitzer Prize. In 1986, the Tribune had a number of outstanding reporting efforts we think worthy of the Pulitzer, but theirs was indeed our best. All of us are proud and grateful that it was so recognized.”[3]
Lyon was the recipient of the 1984National Headliner Award for a Tribune series on the care of congenitally handicapped newborns. Thereafter he expanded this work and wrote a book based on it, called,Playing God in the Nursery.
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