Frank Conniff (/kɒnˈnɪf/ kon-NIF;[1] April 24, 1914 – May 25, 1971) was an American journalist and editor who won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1956.
He went to college at the University of Virginia, and after covering sports for one year in Danbury, joined Hearst Newspapers in New York.
[1] In 1958 he became general director of the Hearst Headline Service, which provided news features, and contributed a Washington column.
[1][3][4] Conniff interviewed Nikita S. Khrushchev, premier of the Soviet Union, in Moscow in 1955 for Hearst's International News Service, earning him a 1956 Pulitzer Prize, which he shared with William Randolph Hearst, Jr. and Joseph Kingsbury Smith for a series of exclusive interviews with leaders of the Soviet Union.
[2] He was a regular panelist on the NBC game show, Who Said That?, along with H. V. Kaltenborn, Peggy Ann Garner, Deems Taylor, and Boris Karloff.