Ohio native and Ohio University alumnus Clarence Page is being honored for a half-century of journalistic achievement.

The Chicago Tribune columnist will receive the W.M. Kiplinger Distinguished Contributions to Journalism Award from the National Press Foundation at the group’s annual awards dinner in Washington D.C. on Feb. 15.

Page, 70, was born in Dayton and raised in Middletown, where he attended Middletown High School. After earning a journalism degree at Ohio University, he built a career as reporter, editor, syndicated columnist, author and commentator.

His columns are regularly carried by The Dispatch.

He earned the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1989. He shared an earlier Pulitzer as a reporter for a 1972 series on voter fraud.

Page, who has received many other honors over his long career — including the Governor’s Award from the Ohio Newspaper Association — was named Ohio University’s 2015 alumnus of the year.

The National Press Foundation judges stated that Page’s “columns tackle the thorniest issues of the day — from immigration to discrimination — with good humor and humility.”