{"id":3133,"date":"2014-05-05T09:53:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T16:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=3133"},"modified":"2014-06-25T07:53:55","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T14:53:55","slug":"thomson-bailey-1949-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=3133","title":{"rendered":"THOMSON, BAILEY, 1949-2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Journalist; educator.\u00a0 Born&#8211;February 4, 1949, Aliceville.\u00a0 Parents&#8211; William and Attie Bell Thomson.\u00a0 Married Kristi Garrison. Children&#8211;one.\u00a0 University of Alabama, B.A.,. 1972; M.A., 1974; Ph. D., 1995.\u00a0 Reporter for several newspapers:\u00a0 Tuscaloosa News, Huntsville Times, Shreveport (LA) Times, Orlando Sentinel, 1974-1992; associate editor, Mobile Press-Register, 1992-95.\u00a0 Professor of Journalism, University of Alabama, 1996-2003.\u00a0 Advocate of constitutional reform in Alabama; helped create Alabama Citizens for Constitutional Reform. Finalist for Pulitzer Prize, 1995; Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award, 1999; Clarence Cason Award for Contributions to Alabama arts and letters, 2004.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Died November 26, 2003.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Obituary, Tuscaloosa News, November 24, 2003.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor and Contributor;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Century of Controversy: Constitutional Reform in Alabama.\u00a0 Tuscaloosa:\u00a0 University of Alabama Press, 2001.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributor;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the Love of Alabama; Journalism by Ron Casey and Bailey Thomson.\u00a0 Tuscaloosa; University of Alabama Press, 2011.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Introduction,&#8221; 90 degrees in the Shade, by Clarence Cason.\u00a0 University of Alabama Press, 2001.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; Journalist; educator.\u00a0 Born&#8211;February 4, 1949, Aliceville.\u00a0 Parents&#8211; William and Attie Bell Thomson.\u00a0 Married Kristi Garrison. Children&#8211;one.\u00a0 University of Alabama, B.A.,. 1972; M.A., 1974; Ph. D., 1995.\u00a0 Reporter for several newspapers:\u00a0 Tuscaloosa News, Huntsville Times, Shreveport (LA) Times, Orlando Sentinel, 1974-1992; associate editor, Mobile Press-Register, 1992-95.\u00a0 Professor of Journalism, University of Alabama, 1996-2003.\u00a0 Advocate of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-t-v"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3133"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3387,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133\/revisions\/3387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}