RIP: Claude Sitton
NYT Southern regional correspondent set the standard for Civil Rights Movement coverage.
Very few journalists are able to leave behind a legacy as powerful as this. From today’s New York Times obituary for Claude Sitton, who passed away Tuesday in Atlanta at the age of 89:
When Turner Catledge, the Mississippi-born managing editor of the Times, chose Mr. Sitton to cover the South in 1958, “he was about to set in motion a level of reporting that would establish the national standard for two decades,” Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff wrote in 2006 in their Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle and the Awakening of a Nation.
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