1. Deborah Jane Price was an American journalist, author, and pioneering lesbian columnist.
16 Facts About Deb Price
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Deb Price won a Lambda Literary Award for her book Courting Justice and was inducted into the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association's Hall of Fame in 2009.
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Deb Price's father was an Episcopal priest, and her mother was a receptionist with a law firm.
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Deb Price started her college at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, before transferring to Stanford University, earning bachelor's and master's degrees in English literature in 1981.
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Deb Price started her career with the Northern Virginia Sun and the news agency States News Service, which provided syndicated news coverage of Washington for papers across the country.
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Deb Price went on to join The Washington Post in 1984 as an editor with the national desk, where she would meet her future partner Joyce Murdoch.
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Deb Price later joined the Washington bureau of The Detroit News.
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Deb Price's first book, And Say Hi to Joyce: America's First Gay Column Comes Out, co-written with her partner Joyce Murdoch, was a compilation of her columns.
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Deb Price went to Harvard University as a Nieman journalism fellow in 2011, after which she and Murdoch moved to Hong Kong, where Murdoch took an academic job.
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Deb Price shifted focus to business media and went on to work for The Asian Wall Street Journal.
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Deb Price served as managing editor for Beijing-based financial media house Caixin Global and was the business editor for Hong Kong-based The South China Morning Post.
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Deb Price was the recipient of the GLAAD Media Award for her coverage of LGBTQ+ issues in mainstream media.
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Deb Price was inducted into the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association's Hall of Fame in 2009.
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Deb Price met her partner Joyce Murdoch, then a fellow editor at the national desk of The Washington Post, in 1984.
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Deb Price died on November 20,2020, from interstitial pneumonitis in a hospital in Hong Kong at the age of 62.
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Deb Price had had a rare autoimmune lung disease that she contracted in 2011.