Norm Clarke is an American gossip columnist in Las Vegas, Nevada.
He moved on to newspaper jobs in Miles City, Helena and Billings, Montana.
While there, he covered the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire in neighboring Southgate, Kentucky, where 165 people perished.
His work in covering the collapse of a 1978 nuclear power plant cooling tower in West Virginia, in which 66 construction workers died, earned Clarke and his colleagues a Pulitzer Prize nomination.
[citation needed] He later transferred to San Diego, California and then Los Angeles, where he coordinated AP's coverage of the 1984 Summer Olympics.