Howard M. Norton

Who was Howard M. Norton?

Howard M. Norton was an American journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize.

Howard Norton grew up in Florida, and he attended the University of Florida for college. In 1933, he graduated with a Bachelors degree in journalism. After graduation he moved to Baltimore and became a Foreign correspondent for The Baltimore Sun.

Norton wrote a series of articles "dealing with the administration of unemployment compensation in Maryland, resulting in convictions and pleas of guilty in criminal court of 93 persons." For that work he and the Sun won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1947.