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Peggy Fletcher Stack

b. 1951

American journalist

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About Peggy Fletcher Stack

Born 1951. Peggy Fletcher Stack is an American journalist.

Peggy Fletcher Stack is an American journalist, editor, and author. Stack has been the lead religion writer for The Salt Lake Tribune since 1991. She and several other journalists at the Salt Lake Tribune won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting.

In 1975 Stack helped found Sunstone, an independent magazine of Mormon studies, and steered it for its first eleven years. She was the editor of Hastings Center Report from 1986 until 1991, when she was hired to start the "Faith" column in the Salt Lake Tribune. She won the Cornell Award for Excellence in Religion Reporting—Mid-sized Newspapers from the Religious News Association in 2004, 2012, 2017, 2018, and 2022. Stack is an advisor on religion to the Public Broadcasting Service, and has written two books.

Biography Peggy Fletcher was raised in New Jersey, daughter of physicist Robert Chipman Fletcher and Rosemary Bennett, one of five girls and three boys.

In 2017, Stack, along with several other staffers, won a Pulitzer Prize in the Local Reporting category for a series of stories, described as "a string of vivid reports revealing the perverse, punitive and cruel treatment given to sexual assault victims at Brigham Young University, one of Utah’s most powerful institutions."

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Journal articles

Awards and honors Stack has received and been nominated for multiple awards.

Year Organization Award title,Category Work Result Notes Refs 2004 Religion Newswriters Association RNA Awards,Cornell Award for Excellence in Religion Reporting—Mid-sized Newspapers - -

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American journalist

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Peggy Fletcher Stack was born on 1 July 1951 in New Jersey.

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