Faces of Combat, PTSD and TBI: One Journalist's Crusade to Improve Treatment for Our Veterans
Newhouse has been a journalist for four decades. The first half of his career was as a reporter, correspondent and bureau chief for The Associated Press, working in Baltimore; new Orleans; Chattanooga, Tenn.; Pierre, S.D.; St.Louis; and Charleston, W. Va.As AP correspondent in St. Louis from 1980 to 1984, Newhouse was active in the local chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, the Society of Professional Journalists. During his term as president, he secured a grant from the Seven-Up Co. to bring some of America's leading journalists to St. Louis to discuss the political, moral and ethical issues facing their profession. That six-part series of programs, The Media and You, was aired live by the local PBS station, KETC.The second half of his career has been with the Great Falls MT Tribune, where he is currently the projects editor. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for a 12-part series of stories on alcoholism.