Hank Klibanoff | |
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 Hank Klibanoff in 2007 | |
| Born | (1949-03-26)March 26, 1949 (age 76) Florence, Alabama, U.S. |
| Education | Coffee High School Washington University in St. Louis (BA) Medill School of Journalism |
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| Spouse | Laurie Leonard |
| Children | 3 |
| Awards | Peabody Award (2018) |
Hank Klibanoff (born March 26, 1949, inFlorence, Alabama[1]) is an American journalist, now a professor atEmory University. He andGene Roberts won the 2007Pulitzer Prize for History for the bookThe Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation.[2]
Hank Klibanoff was born and raised inFlorence, Alabama. He got an early start in journalism delivering newspapers by bicycle. He graduated fromCoffee High School in Florence and attendedWashington University in St. Louis, where he studied underHoward Nemerov and received his B.A. in English. He subsequently received a master's degree in journalism from theMedill School ofNorthwestern University.
He was managing editor of theAtlanta Journal-Constitution until June 24, 2008, when he stepped down.[3] He had been deputy managing editor forThe Philadelphia Inquirer, where he worked for 20 years.[3] He had also been a reporter for six years inMississippi and three years atThe Boston Globe.[2]
Klibanoff is currently the director of the journalism program atEmory University in Atlanta, Georgia, as well as the project managing editor of the Civil Rights Cold Case Project.[4][5]
He hosts a podcast called "Buried Truths" about racial tensions in Georgia during and after the 1948 election.[6] The podcast won a 2018Peabody Award.[7]
Klibanoff is father to 3 girls, Eleanor, Caroline and Corinne; he is married to Laurie Leonard.
