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.”
Her name alone taints this site. P.U.K.E.
Never mind.
Tucker is the IDIOT who thought it would be a good idea to drop cans of SPAM over Iraq!!!!!!!
(she remarked that she liked it...)
Professor material, to be sure.
i’m surprised she hasn’t shown up in the Obama administration yet. She’d be a great Obama spokesman. The insane covering the idiot. Priceless.
Going to train more little Cynthia Tuckers.
What does this woman know about journalism?
You're being way too kind.
UGAG
Are GPAs too high at UGA?
this should be protested by by ga taxpayers.
there is no reason we should be funding her
to preach hate against us. the left has been veru
good at getting americans to fund their
own demise. it is time to stop. surely
state politicians and the board of regents
should steo in. it might make her a martyr
but believe me, the naacp, aclu or any
other left wing group would go after tax-funded
teacher they felt was unsuitable. and they would win.
If a redwood falls in the forest does it make a sound if no one hears it? Today’s deep thought.
can we be so lucky
That’s what I thought. J schools are closing, so she must be hoping to get some tenure before that one closes, then she can transfer to black studies where she can continue with her grievances against whitey.
People like her are the reason "journalism schools" at American universities have become nothing but junk propaganda mills for the marxist Democrat Party.
Wonderful. I just moved my newly freshman daughter to UGA yesterday. I’ll remind her to avoid the “persuasive writing” class taught by Tucker.
That's my timetable for potentially re-subscribing...clean house of these mendacious hypocrites. Her departure is good news for the AJC and a very bad decision on the part of UGA.
My mother received her degree in Journalism at UGA - she’s rolling in her grave now, I’m sure.
Tell her to come by Bee’s Knees Bakery and mention her freeper parent and get a free cupcake.
One more reason to say, "Roll Tide!"
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