Richard (Dick) Cooper, (born December 8, 1946)[1] is an American journalist retired from a 28-year career as reporter and editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer.
[2] After attending Grand Rapids Community College and graduating from Michigan State University in 1969, Cooper joined the Rochester Times-Union; there, he and John Machacek won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Local General or Spot News Reporting for their coverage of the Attica Prison Riots.
[1] He currently lives in Saint Michaels, Maryland, where he founded Cooper Media Associates and writes for the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum and other clients.
[citation needed] Cooper is an avid sailor and has owned several boats over the years.
Currently, he sails Tusitala, a Hinckley Bermuda 40 yawl with a flag-blue hull, out of Saint Michaels, Maryland.