Dwight E. Sargent
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Dwight Emerson Sargent (April 3, 1917 – April 4, 2002) was an American journalist.[1][2]
Born in Pembroke, Massachusetts, he graduated in 1939 from Colby College and served in Europe with the United States Army during World War II.[1][2]
Sargent worked at The Portland Press Herald in Maine and The Standard-Times of New Bedford, Massachusetts, before becoming a longtime editorial writer for The New York Herald Tribune.[1][2]
He was a Nieman Fellow in 1951, studying local government. He was a curator for the Nieman Foundation for Journalism from 1964 to 1972. In 1978, he was appointed national editorial writer for Hearst Newspapers.[1] He was a president for The Society of Silurians.[3]
Sargent died of throat cancer on April 4, 2002.[2]
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