Wendell Rawls Jr.
Wendell Lee Rawls Jr. (born August 18, 1941, in Goodlettsville, Tennessee) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and editor.His career spans 40 years in journalism and media, beginning in 1967 at The (Nashville) Tennessean.Rawls was the first national correspondent at The Philadelphia Inquirer (where he won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting[2] in 1977); was a Washington correspondent and then Southern Bureau chief for The New York Times;[3] and assistant managing editor for news at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.In 2005, he became managing director of the Center for Public Integrity, an investigative nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C., and in May 2006 became its executive director before returning to teaching.Rawls was a professor in the School of Journalism at Middle Tennessee State University from 2000 until his retirement in 2015, and occupied the Seigenthaler Chair of Excellence in First Amendment Studies at MTSU in 2001.