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Civil rights era · 1945–1975
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Vermont Royster wins the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
Vermont C. Royster, a UNC graduate, won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing for his regular editorials in The Wall Street Journal.
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UNC announces Vermont Royster will join its faculty as Kenan professor of journalism and public affairs
The university announced that Vermont C. Royster, retiring as editor of The Wall Street Journal, would join the UNC faculty the next September as Kenan professor of journalism and public affairs. He taught journalism and political science in Chapel Hill until 1981.
Recent decades · 1976–2026
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Vermont Royster is among the first inductees of UNC's North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame
The UNC School of Journalism began its Journalism Hall of Fame in 1981, inducting Vermont Royster, former editor of The Wall Street Journal, with Pete McKnight and Charles Kuralt.
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Vermont Royster wins the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
Vermont Royster, Kenan professor emeritus in the UNC School of Journalism, won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary for his weekly Wall Street Journal column "Thinking Things Over." It was his second Pulitzer, thirty years after the first.
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Vermont Royster receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Vermont Royster, who had returned to UNC as a professor after retiring from The Wall Street Journal, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1986.
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