Chuck Philips, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist renowned for his reporting on dark corners of the music industry, died in January at age 71. And,” Iovine added, Philips was “a great guy.”Philips’ co-Pulitzer winner, Hiltzik, tells Variety: “Chuck was the most tenacious, scrupulous, principled and honest journalist I ever knew. “Chuck was the most fearless, tireless and honest reporter I met in my three decades at the Los Angeles Times,” Hilburn said Thursday. And it seemed to lead him into this strange new world of being about the business of music as well as the content of music. Wrote a younger journalist, Gerrick Kennedy, who went on to make his own name at the Times: “An iconic byline.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 02, 2024 03:05 UTC