Reid MacCluggage

Reid MacCluggage retired in 2002 as editor and publisher of The Day in New London, Connecticut after 41 years in the newspaper business. He began his career as a reporter at the Hartford Courant in 1961 after graduating from the University of Hartford. During the 23 years he worked for the Courant, MacCluggage was bureau chief, copy editor, magazine writer, state editor, assistant managing editor and managing editor. He left in 1984 to join The Day. MacCluggage was national president of Associated Press Managing Editors (APME) in 1997-98 and served on the APME board of directors for six years. He has been a juror of The Pulitzer Prizes, president of the New England AP news executives association, vice president of the Task Force on Minorities in the Newspaper Business, and director of the Connecticut Council on Freedom of Information. He has won the Yankee Quill Award, given by the Academy of New England Journalists, the Ida B. Wells Award, presented by the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Conference of Editorial Writers, and was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists. MacCluggage and his wife Linda divide their time between homes in Connecticut and Florida. They have three children, two sons and a daughter.