Aug 18, 2014

Former Sun Editor Alex Jones Inducted Into Tennessee Journalism Hall Of Fame

MURFREESBORO — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alex S. Jones, a native of Greeneville and a former editor of The Greeneville Sun, was one of six veteran Tennessee journalists inducted Tuesday into the second class of the Tennessee Journalism Hall of Fame.

Jones, the director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Specialized Reporting in 1987 while a reporter for The New York Times.