Martin Waldron

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Martin Oliver "Mo" Waldron (February 2, 1925 – May 27, 1981) was an American newspaper reporter. His 1963 series of articles in the St. Petersburg Times exposed the state's "reckless, unchecked spending" on the construction of the Sunshine State Parkway, and was recognized with the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. At his death he was the bureau chief for The New York Times in Trenton, New Jersey, the state capital.

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Although Martin Waldron originally studied engineering at Georgia Tech, he turned his interests to newspaper reporting. While at Georgia Tech he met and married Anna Wood on October 18, 1947. The couple would have four children.

The Waldron's began living in Birmingham, Alabama while Martin finished school at Birmingham-Southern College and worked as a reporter for the Birmingham Post-Herald. Ann worked for The Progressive Farmer, a magazine centered on rural life and farming. In 1961, Martin was hired by the Tampa Tribune and the family moved to Tampa, Florida. Ann also began working for the Tampa Tribune, writing a weekly feature on women in state government. In 1965, the New York Times hired Martin to open a bureau in Houston, Texas, and the family followed. In 1975 the New York Times transferred Martin to New York, and the family moved again, settling in Princeton, New Jersey.

Martin Waldron died in 1981.