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Notable Journalists Deaths

  • Peter Worthington, 86 (1927 - 2013)

    Peter Worthington

    The Associated PressTORONTO (AP) — Peter Worthington, a veteran newspaperman who co-founded the Toronto Sun, has died. He was 86.His wife, Yvonne Crittenden, said her husband died Sunday night.The Toronto Sun said Monday on its website that Worthington was admitted to Toronto General Hospital last Thursday and diagnosed with a serious staph infection that compromised his heart, kidneys and...

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  • Alan Abelson, 87 (1925 - 2013)

    Alan Abelson

    The Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) — Alan Abelson, who spent 57 years as a writer, editor and chief columnist for financial news publication Barron's, has died at the age of 87.The author of the long-running Up and Down Wall Street column died Thursday of a heart attack, according to Sara Blask, a spokeswoman for Dow Jones, which publishes Barron's. Abelson had been on a medical leave of absence...

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  • Mary Thom (2013)

    Mary Thom

    The Associated PressYONKERS, New York (AP) — Prominent feminist Mary Thom, a writer and former editor of Ms. magazine who also was an avid motorcyclist, crashed while riding on a highway and was killed, her nephew said Saturday. She was 68.Thom had a passion for riding motorcycles and died riding her 1996 Honda Magna 750 on Friday evening on a highway just north of New York City, nephew Thom...

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  • Pierre Sadek (2013)

    Pierre  Sadek

    The Associated PressBEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's leading caricaturist Pierre Sadek who was famous for his decades of work poking fun at politicians died on Wednesday. He was 76.State-run National News Agency said Sadek died after a long sickness.A graduate of the Lebanese Academy for Fine Arts, Sadek worked for several local newspapers, including An-Nahar. In 1986, he became Lebanon's first...

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  • John Fenton Wheeler, 89 (1924 - 2013)

    John Fenton Wheeler

    The Associated PressCOLUMBIA, Missouri (AP) — John Fenton Wheeler, an Associated Press foreign correspondent who was the last U.S. reporter expelled from Cold War-era Cuba, has died. He was 88.Wheeler died on April 21, according to an obituary from Parker Funeral Service in Columbia, Missouri.Wheeler's 21-year AP career began in 1964 in Columbus, Ohio. He then transferred to the foreign desk in...

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