John Machacek (February 18, 1940 – July 24, 2020) was an American reporter. Machacek was born in

Cedar Rapids, Iowa Cedar Rapids () is the second-largest city in Iowa, United States and is the county seat of Linn County. The city lies on both banks of the Cedar River, north of Iowa City and northeast of Des Moines, the state's capital and largest city. ...

. Working for ''The Times-Union'' of

Rochester, New York Rochester () is a city in the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Monroe County, and the fourth-most populous in the state after New York City, Buffalo, and Yonkers, with a population of 211,328 at the 2020 United States census. Located i ...

, in 1971, he and Richard Cooper covered the

Attica Prison riot The Attica Prison Riot, also known as the Attica Prison Rebellion, the Attica Uprising, or the Attica Prison Massacre, took place at the state prison in Attica, New York; it started on September 9, 1971, and ended on September 13 with the hi ...

. Their reporting was recognized with the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Spot Reporting.

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American male journalists Pulitzer Prize winners for journalism 1940 births 2020 deaths People from Cedar Rapids, Iowa Journalists from Iowa {{US-journalist-1940s-stub