{"id":1871,"date":"2019-08-24T21:33:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T01:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/?page_id=1871"},"modified":"2026-02-05T15:09:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:09:42","slug":"burl-osborne","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/hof\/burl-osborne\/","title":{"rendered":"Burl Osborne"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"w-full xl:container mx-auto px-6\">\n<h3 class=\"lead\">Class of 1960<\/h3>\n<div class=\"marsha-row mt-4 mb-4 flex flex-wrap -mx-2 lg:-mx-6  justify-start border-0 border-gray-100 first:mt-0\"><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-4\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\"><div class=\"\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/files\/HOF-Osborne-300x415.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot image of Burl Osborne\" width=\"300\" height=\"415\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-8\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\"><div class=\"\">\n<p>While he was a student at Marshall, Burl Osborne worked at\u00a0<em>The Daily Independent<\/em>, but soon after graduation he launched a 20-year career with the Associated Press, starting as a correspondent in Bluefield, W. Va. By 1964, Osborne was heading the Associated Press in Spokane, Wash. He continued to work in a number of locations with the AP and he was eventually named managing editor of the wire service\u2019s worldwide news operations in 1977. In 1980 he started working as the executive editor at\u00a0<em>The Dallas Morning News,<\/em>and the newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting while under his leadership. He was named senior vice president and editor in 1983, president in 1985 and publisher in 1991. Finally, he was appointed as the executive officer of the Belo Corporation. Osborne served on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE), and he was editor of the Society\u2019s publication,\u00a0<em>The Bulletin<\/em>. He also was president of the ASNE Foundation. \u00a0He was a member of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association, a Trustee of the Foundation for American Communications and a Pulitzer Prize juror. Osborne, in 1992, was the recipient of the National Press Foundations George David Beveridge Jr. Award for Editor of the Year and in 1993 he was named the Pattagart Texas Newspaper Leader of the Year.<\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class of 1960<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"featured_media":0,"parent":1654,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-legacy.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1871","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3133,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1871\/revisions\/3133"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}