Jack Fuller

Jack William Fuller (October 12, 1946 – June 21, 2016) was an American journalist who spent nearly forty years working in newspapers and was the author of seven novels and two books on journalism.

Biography Fuller was born in Chicago, Illinois.

During the administration of President Gerald Ford, Fuller served as Special Assistant to United States Attorney General Edward Levi.

From 1989 to 1997 he was editor and then publisher of the Chicago Tribune. From 1997 to 2005 he served as president of the Tribune Publishing Company.

He served on the board of the University of Chicago and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Fuller died of cancer on June 21, 2016, at the age of 69.

Selected works Convergence (Doubleday; University of Chicago Press, 1982) Fragments (William Morrow; University of Chicago Press, 1984) Mass (William Morrow, 1985) Our Fathers' Shadows (William Morrow, 1987) Legends' End (Hodder & Stoughton, 1990) News Values: Ideas for an Information Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Best of Jackson Payne: A Novel (Alfred Knopf; University of Chicago Press, 2000) Abbeville (Unbridled Books, 2008) What Is Happening to News: The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. — Read an excerpt. Levi, Edward H. Restoring Justice: The Speeches of Attorney General Edward H. Levi Edited by Jack Fuller. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.