User:Mipiace/John C. Quinn

John C. Quinn (born October 24, 1925 in Providence, Rhode Island) is an American journalist. He is a former editor of USA Today.

John C. Quinn is a retired editor of USA TODAY and a retired chief news executive of Gannett Co., Inc. He was USA TODAY’s editor from 1983 until 1988 and its editor-in-chief in 1988 and 1989. In 1986, the National Press Foundation named Quinn “editor of the year.” (1) http://freedomforumdiversity.org/who-we-are/founders/. He was president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors in 1982 and 1983. He and his late wife, Loie, co-founded the Chips Quinn Scholars program in memory of their son Chips, who was striving for a diverse news staff as editor of the Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Journal when he died in a car crash in 1990. (2)http://www.chipsquinn.org/voices/diaries/diaries.aspx?id=552

He is a founder and former trustee of the Freedom Forum.

Quotes
"Today's booming media world of instant stand-up reporting still needs the old-school skills of the news/city editor, a.k.a. crap detector."

“Next to putting out a good page one, diversifying the staff was one of the most satisfying parts of my job."