Arthur L. Jones

Arthur L. Jones (born 1945 in Baltimore , † October 2, 2006 in Boston ) was an American journalist and deputy press secretary in the White House . He lived in Newton.

Jones was born in Baltimore but moved to Newburyport as a teenager . He attended Boston University and Columbia University .

Jones worked as a journalist for the Newburyport Daily News and then for the Boston Herald Travler . In 1970 he was signed by the Boston Globe . Here he specialized in reporting on legal proceedings. In 1973 was a Pulitzer Prize winner . He also worked for the Boston- based television station WBZ-TV. In 1980 Jones received the New England Emmy Award for an investigative report on the Boston subway .

In 1981 he left the media to teach journalism at Boston University . He later became press spokesman for Michael S. Dukakis , the Boston Mayor Raymond L. Flynn and from 1993 for the US President Bill Clinton .

Governor Dukakis said of Jones, "Crises? (...) He had what you needed in this role because nothing made him panic."

From 2003 he was director of the press office of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .

Jones had three siblings and was married to Karen Anderson since 1993 and had two daughters, Kofi and Keely.

Jones died of leukemia at the age of 61 .