Danny Frank Malone (born January 22, 1955) is an American

journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalis ...

, an

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who won a Pulitzer Prize. Malone currently works for the ''

Fort Worth Weekly ''Fort Worth Weekly'' is an alternative weekly newspaper that serves the Greater Fort Worth area (all of Tarrant County and some of Denton County). The newspaper has an approximate circulation of 35,000. It is published every Wednesday and featur ...

'', an

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. Malone worked as a reporter for the ''

Corpus Christi Caller-Times The ''Corpus Christi Caller-Times'' is the newspaper of record for Corpus Christi, Texas. History There has been a newspaper in Corpus Christi for almost as long as there has been a town. In 1883, the ''Caller'' was started in a frame building ...

'' and the ''

Fort Worth Star-Telegram The ''Fort Worth Star-Telegram'' is an American daily newspaper serving Fort Worth and Tarrant County, the western half of the North Texas area known as the Metroplex. It is owned by The McClatchy Company. History In May 1905, Amon G. Carter ...

'' before joining ''

The Dallas Morning News ''The Dallas Morning News'' is a daily newspaper serving the Dallas–Fort Worth area of Texas, with an average print circulation of 65,369. It was founded on October 1, 1885 by Alfred Horatio Belo as a satellite publication of the '' Galvest ...

'' in 1985. In 2002, he joined the staff of the ''Fort Worth Weekly''. Malone has taught journalism classes at

Tarleton State University Tarleton State University is a public university with its main campus in Stephenville, Texas. It is a founding member of the Texas A&M University System and enrolled over 14,000 students in the fall of 2020. History John Tarleton Agricultura ...

and at the

University of North Texas The University of North Texas (UNT) is a public research university in Denton, Texas. It was founded as a nonsectarian, coeducational, private teachers college in 1890 and was formally adopted by the state 11 years later."Denton Normal School, ...

as an adjunct professor, while also serving as a Hearst Visiting Professional-in-Residence for the UT-Austin journalism program and Jurist for the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference of the Southwest (associated with the Mayborn School of Journalism at UNT). Malone is a graduate of Kimball High School in Dallas and the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,07 ...

. Malone and

Lorraine Adams Lorraine Adams is an American journalist and novelist. As a journalist, she is known as a contributor to the '' New York Times Book Review'', and a former contributor to ''The Washington Post''. As a novelist, she is known for the award-winning '' ...

of ''The Dallas Morning News'' shared the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, citing "reporting that charged Texas police with extensive misconduct and abuses of power"."Investigative Reporting"
The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-04.

Books

* ''America's Condemned: death row inmates in their own words'', by Malone and Howard Swindle (Kansas City: A. McMeel Pub, 1999) "America's condemned "
Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2013-11-04.

References

External links

* (under 'Malone, Dan' without '1955–') WARNING: WorldCat mixes works by multiple people named Dan Malone. LC differentiates him as 'Malone, Dan, 1955–' but credits his book to 'Malone, Dan' undifferentiated. {{DEFAULTSORT:Malone, Dan American male journalists The Dallas Morning News people Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting winners People from Fort Worth, Texas 1955 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Journalists from Texas