Hank Klibanoff

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Hank Klibanoff in 2007
Hank Klibanoff in 2007

Hank Klibanoff (born in Alabama) is an editor for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He received the Pulitzer prize for history in 2007 for the book The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation, co-written with Gene Roberts.

He was the Deputy Managing Editor for The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he worked for 20 years. He was also a reporter for the Boston Globe.

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Hank Klibanoff was born and raised in Florence, AL. He got an early start in journalism delivering newspapers by bicycle. Hank graduated from Coffee High School in Florence and attended Washington University in St. Louis, where he studied under Howard Nemerov and received his degree in English. Hank studied journalism at the Medill School of Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.


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