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Mike McQueen (2009)
NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) - Mike McQueen, chief of bureau for The Associated Press in Louisiana and Mississippi, has died. He was 52. McQueen, who had been on medical leave since the spring, died Sunday from complications of cancer and congestive heart failure. McQueen's journalism career spanned three decades, including two stints with the AP and work on two Pulitzer Prize-winning...
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Hanns Neuerbourg (2009)
By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS, Associated Press Writer GENEVA — Hanns Neuerbourg, a roving Associated Press correspondent in eastern Europe who also covered the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and interviewed Elvis Presley, has died in Switzerland. He was 88. Neuerbourg, who was born in Germany, had moved to the northern Swiss city of Stein following his retirement from the AP in 1991. He died...
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Edward Blanton Kimbell (2009)
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) -- Edward Blanton Kimbell, an electronics maven who played a major role in guiding The Associated Press into the computer age beginning half a century ago, has died. He was 93. Kimbell, who had Parkinson's disease, died Oct. 22 at a nursing home in Rochester and was buried after a funeral mass Wednesday, according to the Fowler Funeral Home in Brockport. He is survived...
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Jack Nelson (2009)
By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON Jack Nelson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who covered the civil rights movement and the Watergate scandal for the Los Angeles Times and was the paper's Washington bureau chief for 20 years, died Wednesday. He was 80. Nelson, who had pancreatic cancer, died at his home in the Washington suburb of Bethesda, Md....
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Nan Robertson, 83 (1926 - 2009)
ROCKVILLE, Md. (Associated Press) - Nan Robertson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter who wrote a book about female employees' fight for equal treatment at the newspaper, has died. She was 83. Robertson died Tuesday of heart disease at a nursing home in Rockville, said Jane Freundel Levey, her stepdaughter-in-law. The veteran reporter won a 1983 Pulitzer Prize for feature...
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Timothy J. Russert, Sr., 85 (1923 - 2009)
BUFFALO, New York (Associated Press) -- The father of the late "Meet the Press" moderator Tim Russert has died in Buffalo, New York. He was 85. The family of Timothy J. Russert Sr. issued a...
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Irving Kristol, 89 (1920 - 2009)
By HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer WASHINGTON (Associated Press) -- Irving Kristol, the political writer and publisher known as the godfather of neo-conservatism whose youthful radicalism...
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Jeanne Toomey (2009)
NEW YORK (Associated Press) - Jeanne Toomey, a pioneering reporter who dropped out of law school in 1943 to take a job covering the New York police beat, has died. She was 88. Toomey...
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W. Horace Carter (2009)
W. Horace Carter, a North Carolina newspaper publisher whose crusades against the Ku Klux Klan earned a Pulitzer Prize, has died. He was 88. Mitchell Ward, director of Inman Funeral Home in...
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Bobby Model (2009)
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (Associated Press) - Bobby Model, a noted adventure photographer who suffered a traumatic brain injury more than two years ago in South Africa when a chunk of concrete smashed...
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Max C. Page, 60 (1949 - 2009)
VIENNA, Va. (Associated Press) - Max C. Page, a top executive at the Newseum and a former broadcast journalist, has died. Page oversaw design and construction of the journalism museum's new...
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Martin Wolman, 90 (1919 - 2009)
MADISON, Wis. (Associated Press) - Martin "Murph" Wolman, a retired publisher of the Wisconsin State Journal who started out selling newspapers on the streets of Madison when he was a boy and...
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Richard Fogel, 86 (1923 - 2009)
Thousand Oaks, CA - (Associated Press) Richard Fogel, co-founder of San Francisco's Bay City News Service and advocate for increasing public access to government, has died. He was 86. Fogel...
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Army Archerd, 87 (1922 - 2009)
By DERRIK J. LANG, AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES -- Army Archerd, whose breezy column for the entertainment trade publication Daily Variety kept tabs on various Hollywood doings for more...
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Dominick Dunne, 83 (1925 - 2009)
By POLLY ANDERSON, Associated Press Writer NEW YORK --Author Dominick Dunne, who told stories of shocking crimes among the rich and famous through his magazine articles and best-selling novels...
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William A. Emerson, Jr., 86 (1923 - 2009)
William A. Emerson Jr., a journalist and author who covered civil rights flashpoints as part of a cadre of gutsy Southern reporters and later served as editor in chief of The Saturday Evening Post...
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Don Hewitt, 86 (1922 - 2009)
By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer NEW YORK — Don Hewitt, the CBS newsman who invented "60 Minutes" and produced the popular newsmagazine for 36 years, died Wednesday. He was 86. He...
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Robert Novak, 78 (1931 - 2009)
CHICAGO — Political columnist Robert Novak, a diehard conservative, pugilistic debater and proud owner of the "Prince of Darkness" moniker, died Tuesday after a battle with brain cancer that was...
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Warren Leary, Jr., 86 (1922 - 2009)
RICE LAKE, Wis. - Warren Leary Jr., a longtime owner and editor of a weekly newspaper that featured his column about life in northern Wisconsin, died Monday. was 86. Leary's family said he died...
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Mary Morris Lawrence, 95 (1914 - 2009)
Mary Morris Lawrence, one of the first female photographers at The Associated Press, has died. She was 95. She died Aug. 12 at her home in Oakland, Calif., her husband, Harold Lawrence, said...
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Fred Kinne (2009)
SAN DIEGO — Fred Kinne, a veteran editor who helped a San Diego newspaper win the Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of a 1978 plane crash, has died. He was 93. His family says Kinne died Sunday...
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Joel P. Smith, 80 (1929 - 2009)
EUFAULA, Ala. -- Joel P. Smith, the longtime publisher of the Eufaula Tribune, died Thursday. He was 80. He died at his home after suffering from heart problems, his family said. Smith, a...
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Walter Cronkite, 92 (1916 - 2009)
By FRAZIER MOORE - AP Television Writer NEW YORK - Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the networks' golden age who reported a tumultuous time with reassuring authority and came to be...
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Cal Olson (2009)
FARGO, N.D. - Cal Olson, a former managing editor, photographer and a member of The Forum team awarded a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of a deadly 1957 tornado, has died at age 84. The Forum said...
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Jean Sprain Wilson, 86 (1923 - 2009)
ROCKVILLE, Md. - Jean Sprain Wilson, a pioneering female journalist whose interview subjects were as varied as Princess Grace of Monaco and murderer Charles Manson, has died. She was 86. Wilson...
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Paul Hemphill, 73 (1936 - 2009)
Atlanta - Atlanta writer Paul Hemphill, who chronicled the blue-collar South with his memoir "Leaving Birmingham" and wrote a biography of country singer Hank Williams, died Saturday. He was 73. ...
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Jose Sobrino, 79 (1930 - 2009)
NEW YORK - Spanish-born journalist Jose Sobrino Dieguez has died at his Manhattan home. He was 79 years old. His widow, Angela Sobrino, says her husband died of cancer Friday. Sobrino...
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Ernie Salvatore (2009)
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Ernie Salvatore, whose career as a writer, editor and sports columnist in Huntington spanned nearly 60 years, died Friday. He was 87. Salvatore died at his Huntington...
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Robert Taylor, Jr., 96 (1913 - 2009)
BRYN MAWR, Pa. — Robert Taylor Jr., former publisher of the Philadelphia Bulletin and a champion of the free press, has died. He was 96. His son, Robert E. Taylor, says his father died...
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Norman Welton (2009)
NEW YORK - Norman Welton, whose 31-year career as a photo editor for The Associated Press included coverage of New York City, the United Nations and four Olympic Games, died Wednesday. He was 81....
