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Edwin M. Yoder Jr.

Edwin M. Yoder Jr. edited the Daily Tar Heel while a student at UNC, where he earned a B.A. in English in 1956. He went on to write editorials for newspapers in Charlotte, Greensboro and Washington and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1979.

Source: UNC Libraries: Edwin M. Yoder Papers, 1930s-1990s

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1934–2023 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Edwin M. Yoder Jr., Yackety Yack, 1956
Edwin M. Yoder Jr., Yackety Yack, 1956

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  1. Ed Yoder and Louis Kraar edit the Daily Tar Heel UNC students Ed Yoder and Louis Kraar were listed together as editors of the Daily Tar Heel in the spring and fall of 1955.Search the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 4, 1955, p. 2
  2. Edwin M. Yoder Jr. wins the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing Yoder won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing while editorial page editor of the Washington Star, where he worked from 1975 to 1981.Search the index · UNC Libraries: Edwin M. Yoder Papers, 1930s-1990s

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Hussman School of Journalism and Media of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill records, 1968-2022

Hussman School of Journalism and Media · 1968

Records of the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, about 1,600 items in two linear feet covering 1968 to 2022, in the University Archives at UNC, 40280. Oral histories make up much of the material, and subjects include the school's curricula, faculty and students, with William C. Friday, Roland Giduz, Karen L. Parker and Edwin M. Yoder among the figures recorded.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Yoder, Edwin M., Jr. (Edwin Milton), 1934-.

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Picture: Edwin M. Yoder Jr., Yackety Yack, 1956. Public domain. Yackety Yack, 1956 (University of North Carolina yearbook); via the Internet Archive

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