Cynthia Tucker, a veteran newspaper journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, is journalist-in-residence at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. She is a syndicated columnist and co-author, with Frye Gaillard, of The Southernization of America: A Story of Democracy in the Balance.
Tucker was editorial page editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper for 17 years, where she led the development of opinion policy. She has also taught journalism at the University of Georgia, where she was a Charlayne Hunter-Gault writer-in-residence. Her syndicated column continues to be published in newspapers around the country.
In 2007, Tucker won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. She has also received numerous other awards, including being inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists’ Hall of Fame in 2013 and winning the Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer in 2022.
Teaching
Cynthia Tucker is a journalist-in-residence at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. She has also taught journalism at the University of Georgia, where she was a Charlayne Hunter-Gault writer-in-residence at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications.