Journalism career
The 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service was awarded " r the work of George Thiem and Roy J. Harris, respectively, in exposing the presence of 37 Illinois newspapermen on an Illinois State payroll."References
The Pulitzer Prize won by Roy J. Harris and George Thiem was chronicled in a book on the Public Service Pulitzer Prizes, "Pulitzer's Gold," by Harris's son, Roy J. Harris Jr. https://www.pulitzersgold.com/ An article about the connection between the two Harrises was published on the Pulitzer Prize website. https://www.pulitzer.org/article/life-pulitzers American male journalists University of Illinois alumni 1902 births 1980 deaths Journalists from Illinois 20th-century American journalists {{US-journalist-1900s-stub