Henry Pringle Lecture

The Henry Pringle Lecture is named for a long-time faculty member of this school, a Pulitzer Prize winner in biography, and a reporter for the Washington Post.

Henry Fowles Pringle was born in New York City. He was educated at Cornell University and pursued a career as a journalist. He worked for the Boston Globe, the New York Evening Sun, the New York World, and the American Mercury, and later the Washington Post. He taught at the J-school from 1932-1943 and helped to strengthen the work in laboratory newspaper practice.

Pringle won the 1932 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for Theodore Roosevelt, a work praised by some critics for its truthfulness. Other works include Alfred E Smith: A Critical Study and The Life and Times of William Howard Taft.

He left Columbia to work for the government during WW II. The Pringle Lectures were endowed by the School’s alumni in Washington, DC following Mr. Pringle’s death in 1958.