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Douglas Blackmon to chair Miller Center Forum

Pulitzer Prize winner will begin post next month

Pulitzer Prize winner and Wall Street Journal correspondent Douglas Blackmon will become the new chair of the Miller Center of Public Affairs' Forum Program, Gerald Baliles, the center's director, announced last week. Blackmon will begin his new position in February.

"With his background, Doug stood out among a very crowded field of applicants," Baliles said in an email. "Doug has years of experience writing about issues that are important to the governance of this country -

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