Biography of guest editor of a journalist john

Hughes has written two books and for years wrote a nationally syndicated column for The Christian Science Monitor.

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His mother was conscripted into the Government Post Office during that time as well. Following the war, the entire family moved to South Africa. At the age of 16, Hughes started his first job as a reporter at Natal Mercury. Alex Hammond, his first editor, sent him to business school to learn shorthand. Hughes then worked as a reporter for three years before returning to London, where he worked on Fleet Street at a news agency.

He eventually was hired by the London-based The Daily Mirror.

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He accepted. He later became a stringer and a freelance writer for a number of papers in London and The Christian Science Monitor in Boston. About 18 months later he was sent back to South Africa as a correspondent for The Monitor. He filled that position for six years. Hughes was named the Nieman Fellow at Harvard University the following year.

His next assignment from The Monitor sent him to be a foreign correspondent in Asia for six years. It was during this time that he won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in for his thorough reporting of the attempted Communist coup in Indonesia in and the violent purge of communists that followed in — His achievements were readily recognized by The Christian Science Monitor , and he was promoted to Managing Editor, a position which he held for nine years from to , until he was promoted to Editor and Manager.

During his three-year stint as Editor and Manager, Hughes became interested in owning his own newspaper.