James V. Risser Jr.

(1938- ) born in Lincoln. Lawyer, journalist, educator, recipient of 1976 and 1979 Pulitzer Prizes for national reporting, first for exposing corruption in U.S. grain exporting industry and for articles showing the destructive impact of American agriculture on the environment, while he was with the Des Moines Register for 20 years; director of John S. Knight Fellowships for Professional Journalists at Stanford University. Consult Who's Who in America, Vol 2 (2003) 4411.

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