ABOUT R JOHN HUGHES
Longtime journalist for The Christian Science Monitor and former president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He won the Pulitzer in 1967.
He started working as a reporter for the Natal Mercury when he was only 16 years old.
He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1967 for reporting on the attempted Communist coup in Indonesia in 1965.
He had three children and six grandchildren.
He was asked to chair President George H. W. Bush 's bipartisan Task Force on the future of U.S. government international broadcasting in 1991.
