William J. Eaton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetWilliam J. Eaton
American journalist
Date of Birth: 09-Dec-1930
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Date of Death: 23-Aug-2005
Profession: journalist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About William J. Eaton
- William J.
- Eaton (December 9, 1930 – August 23, 2005) was an American journalist. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for his Chicago Daily News coverage of the confirmation battle over Clement Haynsworth, an unsuccessful Richard Nixon nominee for the Supreme Court of the United States.
- This landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents. In 1980 he shared the Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers for his reporting on the U.S.
- energy crisis.From 1984 to 1988, Eaton was chief of the Moscow bureau of the Los Angeles Times.
- He retired in 1994, then became curator of the Hubert H.
- Humphrey Fellows journalism program at the University of Maryland.
- He was a past president of the National Press Club.
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