William J. Eaton (December 9, 1930 – August 23, 2005) was an American journalist. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for his ''

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'' coverage of the confirmation battle over

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, an unsuccessful

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nominee for the Supreme Court of the United States. This landed him on the

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. 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 ''

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''. He retired in 1994, then became curator of the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellows journalism program at the

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. He was a past president of the

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References

*Staff report (August 25, 2005). William J. Eaton; Journalist, 74. ''

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Eaton, William J. 1930 births 2005 deaths American male journalists 20th-century American journalists Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting winners Chicago Daily News people Gerald Loeb Award winners for Large Newspapers