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Charles Douglas Pou was an award-winning journalist and columnist for the Atlanta Journal. He was married to the author Genevieve Pou; they had two daughters. During World War II, Pou served as a bomber crewman in the 467th Bomber Group. After the war, he returned to the United States. He and wife Genevieve Pou settled in Atlanta, where he wrote for the Atlanta Journal from 1948 until his retirement in 1970. At the time of his retirement he was the political editor for the newspaper as well as a columnist.

Pou worked tirelessly as a reporter to improve the accountability of the Georgia state government. As a result of his extended reporting, state law was changed to require surplus funds deposited in state banks to draw interest. At one point, the funds totaled $50 million, and after the law was enacted, earned $1 million annually in interest for the state treasury.

The Madison native won writing awards for his coverage of prison abuses, which led to the closing of the Wilkinson County prison camp and an end to legislative junkets and illegal actions by the state Board of Pardons and Paroles, among others.

He died of renal failure in Atlanta, Georgia, on Jan. 30, 2001.

References

http://www.the467tharchive.org/personnel.html

http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=doc&p_docid=0EADA5888C37B3EA&p_docnum=7&s_dlid=DL0108011419360907455 (obituary article; requires subscription to read)

http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2003_04/senate/research/STATEFLA.pdf