Paul W. Ward

Paul William Ward (1905-1976) was a Baltimore Sun correspondent who won a Pulitzer Prize for his overseas reporting "Life in the Soviet Union" in 1948.

Career In 1937, Ward was transferred to London where he took charge of the Sun's local bureau. As a diplomatic correspondent, he participated in the coverage of the first events of World War II, but in 1940 he returned to the United States. He was assigned to Washington to report on State Department news and international politics until 1945. He covered the Dumbarton Oaks Conference of 1944, the Treaty of San Francisco in 1945, the Foreign Ministers Conference in Paris and New York.

From the 1940s to 1970, Paul Ward worked as The Sun's diplomatic correspondent. Six years after his retirement from reporting in 1970, Ward died at Georgetown University Hospital at the age of 71. In 1984, his widow Dorothy Cate Ward and their children established an award in memory of the journalist. The award is recognized annually to first-year students of Middlebury College who produced outstanding essays during the academic year.