Julia Wallace (journalist)
Julia Wallace is an award-winning journalist based in Phoenix, Arizona. She is originally from Rock Island, Illinois.
She is the interim General Manager of Arizona PBS. Wallace is the Frank Russell Chair for the Business of Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Arizona State University.
She is the co-author of “There’s No Crying in Newsrooms: What Women Have Learned about What It Takes to Lead.”
Early Life[edit]
She attended Rock Island High School in Rock Island, Illinois from 1970 to 1974.
Career[edit]
Wallace graduated from Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications in 1978. She started her journalism career in Norfolk, Virginia, at the Ledger-Star, and then moved to the Dallas Times Herald.
In 1982, she joined USA Today as a reporter just a few weeks after the newspaper’s launch. She worked in news, sports, and special projects. Wallace started one of the first computer-assisted journalism units in the country in 1989 and helped launched the USA Today/Gallup poll.
From 1992 to 1995, she served as the managing editor of The Chicago Sun-Times. During her tenure, a Chicago Sun-Times investigation ultimately led to the conviction of U.S. Representative Dan Rostenkowski, D-Chicago, for stealing taxpayer money.
Wallace was managing editor of The Arizona Republic from 1998 to 2000.
Wallace joined The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 2001. Wallace became the first woman editor-in-chief of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 2002. During her tenure, the newspaper won two Pulitzer Prizes and was nominated for two others.
She served as Cox Media Group Ohio’s market vice president. She was responsible for WHIO-TV, the top-rated CBS affiliate in Ohio; three radio stations; three daily newspapers, including the Dayton Daily News. During Wallace’s tenure in Dayton at Cox Media Group, she also renewed the focus on investigative reporting.[1] She retired from Cox Media Group at the end of 2016[2], leaving to join the Cronkite School in January 2017.[3] Her book, which she co-authored with Kristin Gilger, published in July 2019.[4]
Wallace is the treasurer for the Alzheimer’s Association[5] and a board member of the Ohio Association of Broadcasters.
Awards[edit]
- Awarded Editor of the Year by Editor & Publisher Magazine in 2004.
- Inducted into the Medill Hall of Achievement in 2006.[6]
- Received the Alumni Merit Award from Northwestern University.
References[edit]
- ↑ https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/julia-wallace-retire-from-cox-media-group-ohio/beaQjdY32dmgX0gB7DVh4I/
- ↑ https://www.coxmediagroup.com/cox-media-group-ohios-julia-wallace-named-frank-russell-chair-at-arizona-state-universitys-walter-cronkite-school-of-journalism-and-mass-communication/
- ↑ https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2016/06/29/former-top-republic-editor-joining-asu-journalism-school/86498314/
- ↑ https://www.nocryinginnewsrooms.com/bios
- ↑ https://www.alz.org/about/leadership/board-of-directors
- ↑ https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/about-us/awards/hall-of-achievement/julia-wallace.html
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