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Richard Lee

Richard W. Lee was head of the South Dakota State University Department of Journalism from 1978 until his retirement in 2002. During that period, he built a distinguished record of instruction, management, scholarship and service. During his time at SDSU, he was a champion of diversity and was one of the founding organizers of the annual Crazy Horse Journalism Workshop. He also taught at the University of Maryland and Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. Lee is the third generation of a weekly publishing family in southern Illinois and was a weekly newspaper editor and summer replacement and part-timer on the copy desk at the Washington Star.

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He won many state and national awards, including the Distinguished Achievement Award from SDNA and the 2002 Freedom Forum Administrator of the Year Award. Lee was inducted into the South Dakota Newspaper Hall of Fame in 2002.

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