Douglas Turner

Douglas Turner rowed for Brown University, graduating in 1954, although he later took graduate journalism courses at Stanford on a Ford Foundation Grant. As a rower he represented the West Side Rowing Club of Buffalo, and won three championships at the Royal Canadian Henley Regatta, winning the middleweight eights in 1951, the heavyweight coxed fours in 1954, and the senior heavyweight eights in 1956. After college Turner was in the US Army Counter Intelligence Corps from 1955-57.

After his military service Turner started working in journalism for the Buffalo Courier Express, serving as their financial editor, city editor, executive editor and Washington bureau chief in a career from 1957-82 with that paper. He then joined the Buffalo News, for whom he was the Washington bureau chief from 1982-2007 and then became a columnist for the paper. Turner has been a member of the American Association of Newspaper Editors, the Associated Press Managing Editors Association, a governor of the National Press Club, and a member of the Gridiron Club and Foundation.