Stuart Warner is one of the nation’s most experienced writing coaches and long-form editors. His work on diversity has received numerous honors. A few bullet points:• In 1993, Warner led a yearlong project on race, A Question of Color/Coming Together, which won the 1994 Pulitzer Gold Medal for Public Service. Warner has done hands-on work on two other Pulitzer winners and edited three other Pulitzer finalists.• Warner has taught Literary Journalism and Writing for New Media at the university level and has led seminars on both topics at conferences at Harvard, Columbia, the Poynter Institute, the National Writers Conference and elsewhere.• He has served as a senior editor at Phoenix New Times. The Arizona Republic, The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, the Akron Beacon Journal, The Lexington Herald-Leader and AOL News/Huffington Post.• He is the author of a biography, JOCK, about a high school basketball coach who navigates desegregation in Kentucky to produce the No. 2 team in the nation. He recently finished co-editing a book of essays about journalism in Akron, Akron’s Daily Miracle, which was published by the University of Akron Press in 2020.Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists edited or written by Warner:Winner: Lead writer, The Goodyear War, 1987 Pulitzer Prize for general reporting.Winner: Managing supervisor, 1994 Pulitzer Gold Medal, Akron Beacon Journal, A Question of Color/Coming Together (supervised 29 journalists, who produced a 16-part series on race relations in Akron, Ohio.) Winner: Editor, Connie Schultz, 2005 Pulitzer for Commentary, The Plain Dealer, for a series of columns that included major threads of diversity.Finalist: Editor, Regina Brett, 2008 and 2009, Commentary, The Plain Dealer, for a series of columns about kids in an impoverished neighborhood and a series of columns on the Cuyahoga County Attorney, which also won the Silver Gavel Award.Finalist: Editor, Connie Schultz, Burden of Innocence, 2003, feature writing, for a series on a black man who spent 14 years in prison for a rape he didn’t commit and his struggle to re-enter society after he was freed by DNA evidence.
Listed skills include Journalism, Storytelling, News Writing, Feature Articles, and 21 others.
