Kansas publisher, Pulitzer chair Edward Seaton dies at 79

MANHATTAN, Kan. –

Edward Seaton, a longtime Kansas newspaper writer who served because the Pulitzer Prize Board’s chair and advocated for worldwide press freedom, has died. He was 79.

He died of pure causes Monday night time at his house in Manhattan in northeastern Kansas, his son, Ned, who adopted his father as writer of The Manhattan Mercury, informed the newspaper. Edward Seaton was chairman of Seaton Publications on the time of his demise.

He grew to become The Mercury’s writer and affiliate editor in 1969 and its editor-in-chief in 1981. His grandfather had purchased the paper in 1915, and his father, uncle and brother have been publishers.

Ed Seaton spent a lot of his profession working for democracy and press freedoms, significantly in Latin America. He was president of the Inter American Press Association and of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He served 9 years on the Pulitzer Prize Board.

He and his household constructed a gaggle of affiliated media firms in Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming. He was inducted into the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame in 2013.

He earned a bachelor’s diploma with honours at Harvard College in 1965 and was a Fulbright scholar in Ecuador. He additionally did graduate work in journalism on the University of Missouri.

Born Feb. 5, 1943, in Manhattan, he started his journalism profession as a reporter and replica editor on the Louisville, Kentucky, Courier-Journal.