A pioneering African
American reporter for the
New York Post and the New
York Times, she and her
husband Robert C. Maynard
purchased the financially
ailing Oakland Tribune from
Gannett Co. in 1983, making
it the only major daily with
African American owners. The
Tribune won a 1989 Pulitzer
Prize for photographs of the
San Francisco Bay area
earthquake.
Nancy Hicks was born Nov. 1, 1946, in New York City, the child of a jazz bassist and a mother whose interest in journalism nurtured her daughter's.