Frank Conniff (journalist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American journalist
Date of Birth: 24-Apr-1914
Place of Birth: Danbury, Connecticut, United States
Date of Death: 25-May-1971
Profession: journalist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Frank Conniff (journalist)
- Frank Conniff (April 24, 1914 – May 25, 1971) was an American journalist and editor who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1956.Conniff was born in Danbury, Connecticut.
- His first newspaper job was as a copyboy with the Danbury News-Times.
- He went to college at the University of Virginia, and after covering sports for one year in Danbury, joined Hearst Newspapers in New York.
- He was also a combat reporter during World War II in Africa and Europe, and covered the Korean War in 1950–51.
- In 1958 he became general director of the Hearst Headline Service, which provided news features, and contributed a Washington column.
- In New York he later wrote the "Coniff's Corner" column.
- While Hearst would introduce Conniff as their "house Democrat," Conniff also reportedly supported Joseph McCarthy, as Hearst Newspapers were a McCarthy supporter.
- He unsuccessfully challenged Republican Congressman Ogden Reid of New York's 26th congressional district in the 1964 election.Conniff interviewed Nikita S.
- Khrushchev, premier of the Soviet Union, in Moscow in 1955 for Hearst's International News Service, earning him a 1956 Pulitzer Prize, which he shared with William Randolph Hearst, Jr.
- and J.
- Kingsbury Smith for a series of exclusive interviews with leaders of the Soviet Union.Conniff was editor of Hearst Newspapers's World Journal Tribune of New York from 1966 to 1967, when the newspaper ceased publication.
- He was also national editor of Hearst Newspapers.
- He had a stroke shortly after the close of the World Journal Tribune which he partly recovered from.He was a regular panelist on the NBC game show, Who Said That?, along with H.
- V.
- Kaltenborn, Peggy Ann Garner, Deems Taylor, and Boris Karloff. Conniff died of a heart attack at age 57 in New York on May 25, 1971.His son Frank Conniff Jr.
- is a comedic actor and writer.
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