• Recent Obituaries - Journalism



  • Peter Francis Storer (2009)

    Peter Francis Storer

    SARATOGA, Wyo. - Radio, television and cable industry leader and prominent philanthropist Peter Francis Storer has died. He was 81. Storer died Sunday at his home in Saratoga, his daughter, Elizabeth Storer, said Tuesday. Peter Storer was chief executive officer of Storer Communications, the nation's fourth-largest multiple system cable operator with stock valued at $2 billion at the...

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  • Mike McQueen (2009)

    Mike  McQueen

    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)

    Hanns  Neuerbourg

    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, 93 (1916 - 2009)

    Edward Blanton Kimbell

    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)

    Jack  Nelson

    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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