John S. Dickerson

Who is John S. Dickerson?

John S. Dickerson is a Christian pastor, author and a nationally-awarded American journalist. He has written essays and opinion columns for USA Today, The New York Times'Sunday Opinion Page, and the religion pages of The Washington Post and CNN.

In 2004, he joined The Scottsdale Times as a staff writer and later became features editor. While at The Scottsdale Times, his reporting earned honors from the Arizona Press Club. The Arizona Newspaper Association named him non-daily "Journalist of the Year" in 2007. He then took a staff writer position at the Phoenix New Times, an alternative weekly owned by Village Voice Media.

In 2009, he was named winner of the $10,000 Livingston Award for Young Journalists. "The Livingston Awards for excellence by professionals under the age of 35 are the largest all-media, general reporting prizes in American journalism." Charles Gibson, Michele Norris, Tom Brokaw and Clarence Page are among the judges who selected Dickerson's investigative series about medical regulations in Arizona, "Prescription for Disaster", as the national winner for local reporting.