I'm Clarence Page. I'm a nationally syndicated columnist for The Chicago Tribune out of Washington.
Could you tell us about your charity?
Look, the American Institute for Stuttering is the organization--a school, really, uh, and a, uh, a therapeutic center--that I was impressed with several years ago out of New York. It really has done some great work with young people who, like me, are trying to be recovering stutterers, and they've been very successful with a family-oriented approach that I've found to be better than most I've got into. And it's alo given me a great chance to work with Emily Blunt and Harvey Keitel and other well-known recovering stutterers out there, and it's been a big inspiration for me.
Did any former Power Players give you any tips?
Uh, none whatsoever. And, you know, that's a funny thing about Jeopardy! All--al of us who work in TV news, normally, uh, are very nervous about this, as far as I can tell, because, uh, frankly, you never really know what to expect! [Laughs] You don't know which question you're going to get next, and that is so anxiety-inducing, you have no idea.
Do you have any fears going into the game?
You know, for the long--really, for a number of years, I've had this recurring nightmare of appearing as a guest on Jeopardy! and having a complete brain freeze. Uh, that's something that I'm hoping will not happen tonight. |
"His nationally syndicated column began as a local column for the Chicago Tribune in 1984. He won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary, and is on the Tribune's editorial board. Here's..."
2012 Power Players Week player (2012-05-17).
Playing for American Institute for Stuttering.
Clarence Page, the 1989 Pulitzer Prize winner for Commentary, is a columnist syndicated nationally by Tribune Media Services and a member of the Chicago Tribune's editorial board. Page also has been a regular contributor of essays to The News Hour with Jim Lehrer and a regular panelist on The McLaughlin Group, NBC's The Chris Matthews Show, ABC's Nightline and BET's Lead Story news panel programs.
Page's awards include a 1980 Illinois UPI award for community service for an investigative series titled "The Black Tax" and the Edward Scott Beck Award for overseas reporting in 1976. He also received lifetime achievement awards from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, the Chicago Headline Club and the National Association of Black Journalists. In 1992, he was inducted into the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame.
Page was a reporter, producer and community affairs director at WBBM-TV from 1980 to 1984. Before that he was a reporter and assistant city editor for the Chicago Tribune, during which he participated in a 1972 Task Force series on vote fraud, which also won a Pulitzer Prize.
His book Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity was published in 1996 by Harper Collins.
Born in Dayton, Ohio, he grew up in Middletown. He began his journalism career as a freelance writer and photographer for the Middletown Journal and Cincinnati Enquirer at the age of 17. He graduated from Ohio University with a bachelor of science in journalism in 1969. He also has received honorary degrees from Columbia College in Chicago, Lake Forest College, the Chicago Theological Seminary and the John Marshall School of Law, among others.
Page is married, has one son, and lives in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. |
