Patrick J. Sloyan
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Patrick J. Sloyan

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Patrick J. Sloyan Patrick Joseph Sloyan has covered national and international affairs since 1960 and has been awarded journalism most distinguished prizes for domestic and foreign reporting. His latest work is a non-fiction book, The Politics of Deception: JFK’s Secret Decisions on Vietnam, Civil Rights and Cuba. Sloyan became Washington Bureau Chief of Newsday, the Long Island Newspaper, in 1986. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for his 1990 coverage of Desert Storm, the Persian Gulf War and its aftermath. In the same year, he was also given the George Polk Award for War Reporting. His disclosure of Friendly Fire deaths and injuries led to U.S. Army changes in tank crew training. In 1996, he was given the Raymond Clapper Award for investigative reporting that revealed windfall payments by Clinton Administration to defense contractors. The American Society of Newspaper Editors awarded Sloyan the Deadline Writing prize for his coverage of the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. Those dispatches were included in the college textbook, “ Best Newspaper Writing-1982.” At UPI, he was the first wire service reporter to reveal General Motors’ investigation of Ralph Nader and the debates leading to legislation for auto safety, air and water standards designed to improve public health. It was the start of a public health revolution that saved countless lives around the globe. In 1997, one of Sloyan’s dispatches was selected for republication in the college textbook, “Masterpieces of Journalism: The Greatest Stories American Newspapers have ever produced.” Sloyan was a member of a Newsday team that won 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting on the crash of TWA 800 off the coast of Long Island. His career has spanned nine presidents, 20 Congresses and 12 presidential campaigns. He was involved in the coverage of the 1962 Cuban missile crises that had the United States and the Soviet Union on the brink of nuclear warfare; the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy; the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights struggle and the Watergate and Iran-Contra scandals involving Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Ronald Reagan. As a foreign correspondent based in London, he covered Europe, the Mideast during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon; the British invasion of the Falkland Islands and the transformation of the Soviet Union during the rise of Mikhail Gorbachev. Sloyan began his career in Washington in 1960 at United Press International. He covered the U.S. Senate, the Pentagon and the White House. At Hearst News Service, he covered the Nixon and Ford Administrations before joining Newsday in 1974 as White House correspondent and chief political reporter. The income taxes of all U.S. presidents are now routinely audited by the Internal Revenue Service because of Sloyan’s reporting on White House tax returns. In addition to daily journalism, he has written extensively for a variety of publications including Rolling Stone, the New Republic, the Nation, the Washington Monthly, American Journalism Review, the Washington Post Outlook and the London Guardian. For more than 20 years, Sloyan was chairman and a director of the Fund For Investigative Journalism which provides grants for reporters, photographers, authors, broadcasters and filmmakers involved in investigative journalism in more than a dozen countries. He was Secretary of the Standing Committee of Correspondents which deals with accreditation of Washington newspaper reporters. He is a member of the Gridiron Club. He was graduated from Cathedral High School, Indianapolis, Ind., in 1954 and the University of Maryland in 1962. He served in the U.S. Army from 1955-57. He began journalism in the Army and worked at the Albany (New York) Times Union and the Baltimore (Maryland) News Post before coming to Washington. Sloyan was born in Stamford, Conn., in 1937. He is married to the former Phyllis Hampton. They have four children: Nora, Amy, Patrick and John, and 13 grandchildren.
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