{{Short description|American journalist}} {{use mdy dates|date=December 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = Jacqui Banaszynski | image = Jacqui Banaszynski - Flickr - Knight Foundation.jpg | alt = A white woman with blue eyes and silver hair looks into the camera; she is wearing a red top | caption = Banaszynski in 2011 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1952|4|17|mf=y}} | birth_place = Pulaski, Wisconsin, United States | birth_name = Jacqueline Marie Banaszynski | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|1952|4|17|mf=y}} (DEATH date then BIRTH date) --> | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Journalist | years_active = | known_for = {{Plainlist}} * "The Trail of Tears" <small>(1986 Internat. Pulitzer finalist)</small> * "AIDS in the Heartland" <small>(1988 Feature Pulitzer)</small> * Knight Chair, Missouri School of Journalism {{Endplainlist}} | notable_works = }} [[File:Jacqui_Banaszynski_at_the_Missouri_School_of_Journalism_2008.jpg|alt=Jacqui Banaszynski, speaking at the Missouri School of Journalism in 2008|thumb|Jacqui Banaszynski speaking at the Missouri School of Journalism in 2008]] '''Jacqueline Marie Banaszynski''' (born April 17, 1952)<ref name="Who's Who">{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=63nvmt4HqTEC&q=jacqui+banaszynski&pg=PA218 |title=Jacqueline Marie Banaszynski |encyclopedia=Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners |editor-first1=Elizabeth A. |editor-last1=Brennan |editor-first2=Elizabeth C. |editor-last2=Clarage |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |date=1999 |isbn=9781573561112 |access-date=November 18, 2020 }}</ref> is an American journalist. She was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1988. Banaszynski went on to become a professor and a John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Chair at the school of journalism at University of Missouri.
== Biography == Born in Pulaski, Wisconsin,<ref name="Who's Who"/> Banaszynski began working as a journalist in high school and when she was 15, became the associate editor of the school paper, the ''Pulaski News''.<ref name=":0" /> Part of the appeal of working on the paper was that the journalism program gave her access to sporting events at the school level.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=n5h&AN=2W62212892216&site=ehost-live|title=Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Speaks at UI|last=Rudd|first=Elizabeth|date=6 March 2015|work=Lewiston Morning Tribune|access-date=24 December 2018|url-access=subscription |via=EBSCOhost}}</ref> Banaszynski graduated from Pulaski High School in 1970 and earned a degree in journalism from Marquette University in 1974., graduating {{lang|la|magna cum laude}}.<ref name="Who's Who"/><ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://journalism.missouri.edu/staff/jacqui-banaszynski/|title=Jacqui Banaszynski|website=Missouri School of Journalism|date=October 12, 2011 |language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181220233408/https://journalism.missouri.edu/staff/jacqui-banaszynski/|archive-date=20 December 2018|access-date=2018-12-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26482034/star_tribune/|title=Picture|date=17 July 1983|work=Star Tribune|access-date=2018-12-24|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name=":1" />
Around 1984, Banaszynski started working for the ''St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26481318/argusleader/|title=St. Paul Reporter Wins Pulitzer Prize|date=1 April 1988|work=Argus-Leader|access-date=2018-12-24|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> In 1985, she went on assignment to Africa and her story about Sudanese victims of famine, "The Trail of Tears," became a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1986.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://herstory.rjionline.org/001.html|title=Jacqui Banaszynski|website=Herstory|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170619124216/http://herstory.rjionline.org/001.html|archive-date=19 June 2017|url-status=live|access-date=2018-12-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/jacqui-banaszynski|title=The 1986 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in International Reporting|website=The Pulitzer Prizes|language=en|access-date=2018-12-24}}</ref>
Banaszynski wrote a special report called "AIDS in the Heartland" while she was a reporter at the ''St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26480794/green_bay_pressgazette/|title=Pulitzer Prize Winner Got Her Start on Newspaper at Pulaski|last=Lyons|first=Tom|date=1 April 1988|work=Green Bay Press-Gazette|access-date=2018-12-24|via=Newspapers.com}} and {{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26480908/green_bay_pressgazette/|title=Pulitzer|date=1 April 1988|work=Green Bay Press-Gazette|access-date=2018-12-24|page=A2|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> The report was a series of stories that centered around the lives of two gay Minnesota farmers, Both had contracted and died of AIDS .<ref name=":0" /> She and photographer Jean Pieri searched for a year for subjects that they felt could "humanize people afflicted by this terrifying new illness."<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=https://www.twincities.com/2016/07/25/aids-in-the-heartland/|title=Pulitzer Prize-winning series humanized AIDS crisis, divided Pioneer Press readers|last=Woltman|first=Nick|date=2016-07-25|website=Twin Cities|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180915040343/https://www.twincities.com/2016/07/25/aids-in-the-heartland/|archive-date=15 September 2018|access-date=2018-12-24}}</ref> Their choice of following Dick Hanson and his partner, Bert Henningson, at first upset readers of the newspaper, but after the final installment of the 3 part series, most readers seemed to sympathize with both men.<ref name=":3" /> The series won a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1988.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/jacqui-banaszynski|title=The 1988 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Feature Writing|website=The Pulitzer Prizes|language=en|access-date=2018-12-24}}</ref>
In 1997, Banaszynski began working for ''The Seattle Times'' and in 2003, became the Associate Managing Editor for special projects and staff development.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=2003|title=People & Places|url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lfh&AN=9356332&site=ehost-live|journal=Quill|volume=91|issue=2|pages=37|url-access=subscription |via=EBSCOhost}}</ref>
Banaszynski was inducted into the American Society of Sunday and Feature Editors Hall of Fame in 2008.<ref name=":2" /> She went on to become the Knight Chair at the University of Missouri School of Journalism.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mediaschool.indiana.edu/news/pulitzer-winner-banaszynski-urges-reporters-to-have-the-courage-to-care/|title=Pulitzer-winner Banaszynski urges reporters to have 'courage to care'|last=Moody|first=Kathryn|date=12 February 2015|website=IU Bloomington|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215162048/http://mediaschool.indiana.edu/news/pulitzer-winner-banaszynski-urges-reporters-to-have-the-courage-to-care/|archive-date=15 December 2018|access-date=2018-12-24}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == *[http://www.jacquibanaszynski.com/ Official site] *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=_g9_CMV_zgg Oral history interview]
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