Claude Fox Sitton (December 4, 1925 – March 10, 2015) was an American newspaper reporter and editor.
He returned to his alma mater to teach from 1991 to 1994, and was a member of Board of Counselors of Oxford College from 1993 to 2001.
They had four children, Lauren Lea, Clinton Whetstone, Suzanna Fox and Claude McLaurin.
[6] "His phone number would be carried protectively in the wallets of the civil rights workers who saw him, and the power of his byline, as their best hope for survival.
In 1968, Sitton moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, to become editorial director and vice president of The News and Observer Publishing Co.
[5] Sitton was a forceful editor who was determined to hold accountable those he thought were not acting in the public good.
Among those his paper covered who eventually stepped down were Wake County school superintendent John Murphy, North Carolina State University Chancellor Bruce Poulton and popular NCSU basketball coach Jim Valvano.