Gaylord Dewayne Shaw (July 22, 1942 – September 6, 2015) was an American journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1978.
[3] While in college, Shaw began his journalism career as a police reporter for the Constitution-Press in Lawton.
[3] In 1978, he won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series of articles he wrote for the Los Angeles Times about unsafe dams across the United States.
[1] He earned the 1980 Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers for coverage of the U.S. energy crisis.
[4][5] In 1988, he joined Newsday as their Washington bureau chief, where he oversaw a Pulitzer Prize-winning story about the Persian Gulf War in 1991.