Friends and colleagues of Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Joel Brinkley are remembering his range as a national, foreign, and investigative reporter, his lucid writing, and his sense of humor. Brinkley has died at age 61. Brinkley won a Pulitzer Prize as a young reporter for the Louisville Courier-Journal, went on to report for the New York Times for more than twenty years, write several books, and teach journalism at Stanford University. He also served as a member of the board of the Fund for Investigative Journalism from 2000 until 2005.
You can read more about his life in the Washington Post and the New York Times.