Carl Greenberg was an American newspaper reporter who began as a police reporter; most of his career he was a reporter covering California and US national politics.
10 Facts About Carl Greenberg
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Carl Greenberg worked for the Los Angeles Examiner until it closed in 1962; later he worked for the Los Angeles Times and became its political editor.
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Carl Greenberg graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1926 and subsequently attended the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Carl Greenberg married Gladys Bilansky 12 July 1930 and had a son, Howard, born in 1935.
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Carl Greenberg resided in Park La Brea during the late 1950s and early 1960s and in Culver City at the time of his retirement in 1973 until his death.
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Carl Greenberg is entombed at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City.
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Carl Greenberg retired from his newspaper career at the Times in 1973.
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Carl Greenberg received a number of awards for his reporting, including first prize for the best news story from the Southern California Newspaper Writers, Los Angeles chapter of Theta Sigma Phi in 1944; the Silver award from the California-Nevada Associated Press in 1957; and was a co-recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for general local reporting in 1966.
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Why Nixon did not disparage Carl Greenberg is perhaps partly explained by Greenberg's approach to political reporting.
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Carl Greenberg brought this conviction to the political scene, first for Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner and since 1961 for the Times.