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Veteran investigative reporter Anderson dead at 83
Dec 18, 2005, 5:49 GMT
Washington - Jack Anderson, a columnist and investigative reporter who was a Washington political fixture for decades, died Saturday at his home outside the U.S. capital, his family announced.
Anderson, 83, died of complications from Parkinson's disease.
Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz, a former protege who once worked as a reporter in Anderson's office, described his mentor as 'the most feared investigative reporter of his day'.
In 1972, Anderson won a Pulitzer Prize, the most prestigious award in American journalism, in honour of his reports that the U.S. government had secretly favoured Pakistan during a war with neighbouring Indian.
He made major contributions to the reporting on the so-called Watergate scandal that helped force the resignation of U.S. President Richard Nixon in 1974, and broke stories of corruption and political scandal about presidential administrations from Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s to Ronald Reagan in the 1980s.
Anderson's independent column was syndicated to around 1,000 newspapers at its peak.
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