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WWII correspondent Ernie Pyle took his typewriter to the front to report on the war. SPJ named him a Fellow of the Society last week.

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World War II correspondent Ernie Pyle has been named a Fellow of the Society of Professional Journalists, the organization announced last week.

Pyle, who attended the School of Journalism 1919-23 and is the namesake for the school's building, gained fame during the war as his syndicated columns focused on conflict from the soliders’ point of view.

In 1944, Pyle was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting in Europe. He also won the society’s Distinguished Service Award (later called Sigma Delta Chi Awards) in 1943.

Other fellows include Sydney Schanberg, former New York Times reporter, editor and op-ed columnist, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his coverage of the collapse of Cambodia; and Bob Steele, Nelson Poynter Scholar for Journalism Values at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla., who worked as a journalist before turning to teaching and writing about journalism ethics.

SPJ will honor the new fellows during the annual conference in Las Vegas in October.

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