Posted on 08/10/2011 3:01:11 PM PDT by madprof98
Cynthia Tucker, one of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s highest-profile columnists for more than 20 years, is leaving the AJC to become a visiting professor at the University of Georgia’s journalism school.
Tucker, who won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2007, assumes her new role Aug. 12, the AJC and UGA announced Wednesday.
They said her position at UGA will be part of a partnership between the AJC and the university’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Tucker, 56, was editorial page editor of AJC from 2001 to 2009, when she moved to Washington as a political columnist in a realignment of the opinion-editorial department.
Her last regular column appeared Sunday.
She said Wednesday she feels “a twinge of sadness” at ending her long run as a columnist.
“But I’m very excited at the prospect of teaching at a university and the opportunity that will give me to write in longer form as well,” she said, adding when asked, “There’s definitely a book in my future.”
Tucker said she will move back to Atlanta from Washington and commute to Athens, where she expects to start teaching a course in persuasive writing in the spring semester.
An Alabama native and Auburn University graduate, Tucker began her career in 1976 as a reporter at The Atlanta Journal. After a stint at the Philadelphia Inquirer and as a freelancer, she returned to the Journal as a columnist and editorial writer, then moved to the editorial page of The Atlanta Constitution, which she said was “a better fit for me.” At the time the papers had separate editorial pages, with the Journal leaning right and the Constitution left.
She was promoted to editorial page editor of the Constitution in 1992 and held the same role when the papers’ editorial pages were combined in 2001.
While she is well-known for a liberal take on national politics, the Pulitzer judges honored Tucker for writing passionately on voting rights, racial stereotypes and the failings of African-American leaders.
AJC editor Kevin Riley said Tucker’s column won’t be replaced “because quite simply, there is no replacing Cynthia Tucker.”
Is Tucker going to become the new school mascot?
she was a real good reason not to buy that paper
One down, two to go. (Luckovich & Bookman).
Still won’t get me to touch that fish wrap.
Good riddance.
She’s a kook. Now she’s off to spread her crackpottery to fresh young minds. Increadible.
She’s too UGA to be the champ !
LOL! Journalism School, hey? Out of the pot and into the fire as they say. Most universities are in the process of closing down their J schools! It’s fundamentally an obsolete profession, rapidly moving in the same direction as buggy whip makers.
Another far-Left “journalist” whose audience has tired of her Marxist rants and whose circulation is dwindling, in part, because of the illogical columns her ilk put into papers...
Now, Ms. Tucker can infuse her Communist, radical agenda on young college students at UGA. I would love to take her class, film it, and challenge every point she makes.
This shows the utter madness of Cynthia Tucker and her pro-abortion stance, calling the “Black Genocide” nonsense:
“Hardly. The higher abortion rate among black women is a logical — if desperate — answer to an unplanned pregnancy and meager resources. Since black women tend to be poorer than white women, they are less likely to have the benefit of regular health care and the contraceptive information and services it confers. Trapped in meager circumstances, many black women who find themselves facing an unplanned pregnancy choose abortion.”
She is a PC, Obamazombie moron.
Her inspiration is Goebbels.
Bouncing from one “affirmative action” job to another. That’s all she’s ever been about.
Who would want to learn what she has to teach?
Me thinks a chief rat is abandoning ship.
I guess Mother Tucker is getting out while the getting is good.
Well... Bye.
Let the Big Dawg read.
Bouncing from one “affirmative action” job to another. That’s all she’s ever been about.
##
Just like the President.
Out of 52 pictured faculty profiles, only 2 blacks (not counting her)
So sure makes one wonder why Cindy got this job /s
That’s why they are called by me as “institutions of lower learning”.
OH, NO!
They’ll never see another penny from this alumnus until they get rid of that woman.
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