Chuck Philips
| Chuck Philips | |
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Philips in 2012
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| Born |
Charles Alan Philips October 15, 1952 |
| Citizenship | US |
| Occupation | Journalist and writer |
| Awards |
Pulitzer Prize George Polk Award National Association of Black Journalists Award Los Angeles Press Club award |
| Website | http://www.Chuckphilipspost.com/ |
Charles Alan "Chuck" Philips (born October 15, 1952) is an American writer and investigative journalist. He won a Pulitzer for investigating corruption in the music business.
Philips wrote for the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Spin, Village Voice, The Washington Post, AllHipHop, the San Francisco Chronicle and Source magazine.
Philips chronicled the music industry as well as the entertainment industry in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Richard D. Barnet and Larry L. Burriss credited Philips' continued reporting on sexual harassment in the music industry prompting other media outlets to cover the issue and "bringing sexual harassment in the music industry to a national forum." Philips also covered art and crime, corporate and government corruption, and medical malfeasance.
Philips stated that he saw a failure of the police and others to solve the crimes against black figures such as Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls.
In the early 1990s, Philips wrote a series of stories about Ticketmaster, reporting in 1994 that the rock band Pearl Jam had complained to the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice that Ticketmaster used monopolistic practices and refused to lower service fees for the band's tickets. At the time, Pearl Jam wanted to keep ticket prices under $20 for their fans, with service charges no greater than $1.80. The company had exclusive contracts with large US venues and threatened to take legal action if those contracts were broken.
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