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Tom Gish (2008)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Tom Gish, who shone the spotlight on corruption and environmental degradation in his corner of southeastern Kentucky as an award-winning publisher of The Mountain Eagle of Whitesburg for a half-century, died Friday. He was 82. His son, Ben Gish, said he died at Pikeville Medical Center. Tom Gish and his wife, Pat, overcame floods, threats, arson and attempted...
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Robert M. White II (2008)
MEXICO, Mo. - Robert M. White II, a prominent press-freedom advocate and a finalist for the ultimately abandoned Journalist in Space program, died Thursday. He was 93. White had been ill and died at a Columbia hospital, according to the Web site of the Arnold Funeral Home in Mexico. During World War II, he served on the staff of Gens. Robert Eichelberger and Douglas MacArthur and was a...
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Dick Dougherty (2008)
ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Dick Dougherty, a columnist for the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle who poked fun at presidents, ridiculed his inability to smite crab grass and chronicled his golden retriever's musings via "thought transference," died Wednesday. He was 88. Dougherty had been in failing health for several months. He died at his home in the Rochester suburb of Brighton, said his son,...
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Clive Alexander Barnes, 81 (1927 - 2008)
Clive Barnes, longtime theater and dance critic for the New York Post, has died. Barnes died Wednesday of cancer at Mount Sinai Hospital, the Post announced. He was 81. The London-born Barnes had a long run as a critic covering the arts scene in New York and abroad. He arrived in 1965 from England to write for The New York Times, where he was its dance critic until 1977. He was also the...
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Salah el-Deen Hafez (2008)
CAIRO, Egypt - Salah el-Deen Hafez, a prominent Egyptian writer who spent the later part of his journalism career advocating press freedom, has died. He was 70. The state-owned Middle East News Agency says Hafez died Sunday. It didn't give a cause of death. During his busy career, Hafez wrote 12 books. In his last, titled "Forbidden Politics and Banned Journalism," he criticized a lack...
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Ken Johnson (2008)
DALLAS - Former Dallas Times Herald Executive Editor Ken Johnson, who transformed the newspaper into a Pulitzer Prize winner, has died at the age of 74. Johnson, who also held several positions...
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William Stall, 71 (1937 - 2008)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - William Stall, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the Los Angeles Times and a former press secretary to Gov. Jerry Brown, died Sunday. He was 71. Stall died at his...
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Studs Terkel, 96 (1912 - 2008)
CHICAGO -- Studs Terkel, the ageless master of listening and speaking, a broadcaster, activist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose best-selling oral histories celebrated the common people he...
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Anne Pressly (2008)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Flowers and candles piled up Sunday outside the home where a TV anchorwoman was found brutally beaten, as tributes poured into the Web site of the Little Rock station...
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Hal Roth (2008)
EASTON, Md. - Hal Roth, an avid sailor and author of 12 books who circumnavigated the globe three times, died Saturday. He was 81. Roth died after a 2 1/2-year battle with lung cancer,...
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Carol Horner (2008)
Washington - Carol Horner, director of a Maryland journalism institute and a former longtime Philadelphia Inquirer reporter, was found dead Friday. She was 63. Horner was found in her...
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Raymond Coffey (2008)
CHICAGO - Raymond Coffey, a former Chicago Sun-Times columnist, has died. He was 79. Coffey died Friday in Tucson, Ariz., of complications from Alzheimer's disease, said daughter Brigid Zachar....
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Osborn Elliott (2008)
New York - Former Newsweek Editor Osborn Elliott, widely credited with making the magazine competitive with archrival Time magazine, died Sunday. He was 83. He died of complications from...
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Roger Linscott (2008)
LENOX, Mass. - Roger Linscott, a former Berkshire Eagle associate editor who won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing, died Monday. He was 88. His daughter, Wendy, said Thursday that...
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Nancy Hicks Maynard (2008)
LOS ANGELES -- Nancy Hicks Maynard, the first black female reporter at The New York Times and an advocate of improved training for minority journalists, has died. She was 61. Maynard, the...
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Ken Litchfield (2008)
HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. -- Ken Litchfield, who worked for the Kentucky New Era newspaper for nearly 48 years before retiring in 2004, has died. He was 79. Litchfield died Saturday at his home in...
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Paul Flynn (2008)
FORT MYERS, Fla. - Paul Flynn, a former president of USA Today and publisher of two Florida newspapers, died Thursday. He was 73. Flynn died at a hospice in Fort Myers a day after his 73rd...
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Don Ultang, 91 (1917 - 2008)
DES MOINES, Iowa - Don Ultang, a Pulitzer prize-winning photographer for The Des Moines Register known for his images of a racially charged assault of a black Drake football player during a game...
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Jack Falla (2008)
BOSTON - Jack Falla, a Boston University professor who covered the NHL for Sports Illustrated in the 1980s, died Sunday. He was 62. He died of a heart attack while in Maine with his family, the...
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Anthony Brunton (2008)
NEW YORK - Anthony Brunton, a broadcaster who was part of the first group of reporters when CBS launched its all-news radio station in New York died Sunday after a heart attack. He was 76. CBS...
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John Walter (2008)
ATLANTA- John Walter, a founding editor of USA Today and former executive editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, died Thursday. He was 61. Walter died at Mercy Medical Center in...
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Ike Pappas (2008)
NEW YORK - Ike Pappas, a longtime CBS newsman who was a few feet from presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald when he was fatally shot and reported the chaotic scene live on the air, died Sunday....
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S. Gale Denley (2008)
OXFORD, Miss. - S. Gale Denley, the longtime publisher of the weekly Calhoun County Journal and mentor to a generation of journalism students, died Friday. He was 72. Denley died of...
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John Bonfatti, 52 (1955 - 2008)
BUFFALO, N.Y. - John F. Bonfatti, a reporter for The Buffalo News and former sports writer for The Associated Press, has died. He was 52. Bonfatti died of an apparent heart attack overnight...
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Wayne Stewart (2008)
TOPEKA, Kan. -- Wayne Stewart, managing editor of The Topeka Capital-Journal, has died. He was 57. Stewart died Saturday at his home after battling cancer since late last year. Stewart...
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Leroy Sievers (2008)
Washington - Leroy Sievers, a National Public Radio commentator who turned his battle with cancer into a popular and touching radio and online series, has died from his disease. He was 53. ...
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Anne Wright McCraken (2008)
CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Anne Wright McCraken, whose family owns the Wyoming Tribune Eagle and the Laramie Boomerang, died Saturday. She was 76. McCraken died at her Cheyenne home after a brief illness...
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Anthony J. Russo, 71 (1936 - 2008)
Suffolk, Va - Anthony J. Russo, a researcher who helped leak the Vietnam-era Pentagon Papers to the media and prompted wider public questioning of the war, has died, police said. Russo, 71,...
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Frank H. Delaplane, 79 (1929 - 2008)
RENO, Nev. - Frank H. Delaplane, former news editor for the Gannett News Service who also worked for newspapers in San Francisco and Reno, has died. He was 79. Delaplane died at a Reno care...
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Otto Fuerbringer, 97 (1910 - 2008)
LOS ANGELES - Otto Fuerbringer, who was Time magazine's managing editor during the turbulent 1960s when it famously asked: "Is God Dead?" on the cover and switched to opposing the Vietnam War, has...
