George Peter Anthan (June 2, 1936 – August 17, 2016) was an American journalist. He was the Washington Bureau Chief for the Des Moines Register.
Biography
Anthan was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1936, and was a graduate of the University of Kansas School of Journalism. which Kaul and John Karras started in 1973.
Anthan was a member of the Gridiron Club.
He died on August 17, 2016, at the age of 80 from cardiac arrest. and National Press Club awards. He was twice a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Anthan also won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship
in 2004 to research and write about the de-population of the northern Great Plains.