Pulitzer winner Walter Mears dies, AP’s ‘Boy on the Bus’

Walter R. Mears of the Associated Press is shown on April 3, 1969 at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. | Charles Tasnadi/AP Photo

By Associated Press

03/04/2022 06:21 PM EST

Walter R. Mears, who for 45 years fluidly and speedily wrote the news about presidential campaigns for The Associated Press and won a Pulitzer Prize doing it, has died. He was 87.

“I could produce a story as fast as I could type,” Mears once acknowledged — and he was a fast typist. He became the AP’s Washington bureau chief and the wire service’s executive editor and vice president,

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