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By Dallas Morning News Editorial. He is responsible for overseeing the opinion section of the paper, including op-eds, letters to the editor and editorials, which serve as the voice of The Dallas Morning News. Bush and Laura Bush on the creation of the George W. Miniter led the team that created exhibits for the 14,square-foot museum, including 35 films and interactive exhibits, physical exhibits and audio tours.

Miniter started his career in journalism at a small newspaper, The Northern Virginia Daily , in rural Virginia, where he covered schools and county government. He quickly moved on to The Washington Times , where he edited op-eds and wrote a weekly column for the editorial page. While there, he also led an initiative that took the paper's opinion section online. At The Wall Street Journal , Miniter wrote editorials, op-eds, book reviews and a signed online column.

The story Miniter is proudest to have written led to more than half a million dollars in donations over a year period to a rural private school for low-income children in South Carolina. He resides in Dallas with his wife, who is a practicing attorney.

Email: brendan. Twitter: brendanminiter. A graduate of the University of Dallas, Rudy began his journalism career in San Antonio before departing for the Chicago Tribune in He spent the next six years writing on everything from gang crime to smuggled animals before being sent to the Tribune's Washington Bureau as a national correspondent covering then-Sen. Barack Obama. Rudy returned to Chicago as federal courts reporter, reporting on the trial of one governor and the investigation of another.

The nexus between politics and crime has been a focus of his career. Rudy returned to Texas in as city hall reporter for The News. In , he joined the editorial board in a year that saw the paper reverse its longstanding opinion on the Trinity River toll road. Rudy returned to the newsroom in as city and enterprise editor, overseeing local news coverage as well as investigations and major narrative stories.

Now, as deputy editorials editor, he oversees the paper's editorial writers. In addition to his work for the newspaper, Rudy is director of journalism at The University of Dallas, where he also studies Texas literature, with a specific focus on the novels of Cormac McCarthy.

Elizabeth oversees op-ed content selection and editing of the daily Viewpoints page and Sunday Point section — both in print and online. As a fifth-generation North Texan, Elizabeth loves to hear and read the range of opinions of her fellow Texans, and she is delighted to help create a place for discourse.

On Jan. During the next few years, he also occasionally drew sports cartoons, mostly about baseball. Knott returned to Dallas in November Shortly thereafter, his work started to appear on the front page of The News. Knott first achieved widespread acclaim and popularity during World War I. Knott is perhaps best known for his famous character of Old Man Texas. He was tall, lanky and sported a gallon hat and handlebar mustache.

Old Man Texas promoted honest governance, property ownership and low taxes. He was seen as a symbol of Texas, just as Uncle Sam is a symbol of America. Knott was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Cartooning for a piece featuring Old Man Texas standing amid the dust storms of the s.

They were lauded for the effectiveness found in their simplicity, and his messages could be grasped within a few seconds of reading. Knott was said to have a preternatural ability to know what would be relevant for years to come, which gave his work a lasting quality.

His cartoons were also noted for their incisive humor. He received an honorary doctorate in literature from Baylor University, and he taught art classes in Dallas for almost 20 years. Editorial and commentary from op-ed columnists, the editorial board and contributing writers from The Dallas Morning News , delivered three days a week. By signing up you agree to our privacy policy.

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