Inducted 2022
Charlie’s journalism career began in 1908, when he was named a professor at the new University of Missouri School of Journalism. He moved on to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1918 as the chief Washington correspondent rising to the position of editorial page editor. While there, he won the 1932 Correspondence Pulitzer Prize for his article on the economy. In 1945, high school classmate President Harry S. Truman asked him to become his press secretary, a position he held until his death in 1950.
