Mike Pride

Charles Michael Pride (July 31, 1946 – April 24, 2023) was an American author and journalist best known for his long tenure as editor of the Concord Monitor of Concord, New Hampshire. He was the author or co-author of several books on the American Civil War and World War II.

Life and career

Early life and education Pride was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut Due to New Hampshire's early presidential primary and the candidates that make the rounds in the state, the Monitor enjoyed significant national exposure throughout Pride's tenure at the publication. He completed a non-degree Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University during the 1984–1985 academic year Later in his career, he held three Hoover Institution Media Fellowships at Stanford University from 2005 to 2010 and served as a scholar-in-residence at Gettysburg College.

A four-time Pulitzer Prize juror, he later served as a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board for 9 years, ending his service as co-chair in April 2008.

Influence Those who worked in the Monitor newsroom under Pride's leadership include Bob Hohler of the Boston Globe, Serial host Sarah Koenig, New York Times reporter Margot Sanger-Katz and Pulitzer-winning photographer Preston Gannaway.

Death Pride resided in Bow, New Hampshire. He died from myelofibrosis on April 24, 2023, at the age of 76.

Author Pride was the co-editor, with Felice Belman, of The New Hampshire Century: Concord Monitor Profiles of One Hundred People Who Shaped It (2001). He was also co-author, with Mark Travis, of My Brave Boys: To War With Colonel Cross and the Fighting Fifth (2001), with Steve Raymond, of Too Dead to Die: A Memoir of Bataan and Beyond (2006), with Meg Heckman, of We Went to War: New Hampshire Remembers (2008).

Pride was the author of Our War: Days and Events in the Fight for the Union (2012). His book, Storm Over Key West: The Civil War and the Call of Freedom, was published by Pineapple Press in 2020.

Pride was also a contributor to Brill's Content.