(February 17, 1926 – March 30, 2012) was an American author, journalist, and educator.
He wrote for The Wall Street Journal and later for the Chicago Tribune-New York Daily News Syndicate; still later, he taught at American University.
He won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1965.His 1956 statement in The Wall Street Journal that "Elvis Presley today is a business" has been widely quoted as an observation about the changing face of the American music industry in mid-century.