Kotz, Nick
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Name (Latin)
Kotz, Nick
Other forms of name
Lasser, Nathan Kallison
Date of birth
1932-09-16
Date of death
2020-04-26
Field of activity
Journalism
Occupation
Journalism teachers
Journalists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- Washington post WWW site, viewed April 29, 2020(in obituary dated April 28, 2020: Nick Kotz, who won a Pultizer Prize in 1968 for exposing unsafe and unsanitary conditions in the nation's meatpacking plants and who later became a Washington Post reporter and the author of books investigating hunger, civil rights and miliary contracting, died April 26 at his home near Broad Run, Va. He was 87. Mr. Kotz was born Nathan Kallison Lasser in San Antonio on Sept. 16, 1932. Nick--as he was called from an early age--moved to Washington in the mid-1940s. He was adopted by his mother's second husband, Jacob Kotz. He served as a Marine Corps officer before joining the Des Moines Register in 1958. He moved to the paper's Washington bureau in 1964. Mr. Kotz contributed to many publications over the years and taught journalism at American University. Mr. Kotz lived in Chevy Chase, Md., before moving to a farm in Fauquier County, Va.)
- His Beyond control, 1988:CIP t.p. (Nick Kotz)
- LC data base, 10-22-87(hdg.: Kotz, Nick)