Obituaries
Michael Reliford moved from sports to
news in 1990 when he was named managing editor. He was named editor in
1998 and in 2006 also became the paper's general manager.
David O’Neill was currently working as a production technician at the San Antonio Express-News, where he also supervised the installation of the offset presses and won Hearst's Eagle Award.
Anthony Shadid spent most of his professional life covering the Middle East, as a
reporter first with The Associated Press; then The Boston Globe; then
with The Washington Post, for which he won Pulitzer Prizes in 2004 and
2010; and afterward with The New York Times.
Jeffrey Kaye reported for the San Jose Mercury News, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, and covered the TV industry for TV Guide and the Los Angeles Times.
Herbert Moloney Jr. worked for
more than 25 years in the newspaper business with his last position as
president of Moloney, Regan and Schmidt, a newspaper representative
firm.
Jeffery Zaslow was the co-author, with Randy Pausch, of the bestselling book
"The Last Lecture." Most recently, he collaborated on the book "Gabby: A
Story of Courage and Hope" with former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her
husband, astronaut Mike Kelley.
George Esper earned accolades for breaking important stories and logged 10
years in Vietnam, the last two as AP's bureau chief. He regularly wrote
AP's daily war roundup, a comprehensive story that was a fixture in many
American and foreign newspapers.
Marge Miley joined the newspaper in 1943 and became its first female managing
editor in 1982. Her affiliation with the Herald Times Reporter and its
predecessors spanned more than 66 years.
Robert Cohen opened the first Hudson News at LaGuardia Airport. Instead of kiosks
blanketed with overlapping periodicals, Hudson News newsstands were
airy, brightly lit stores with racks that showed the entire covers of
magazines.
In 1942, Libby Clark became the first black woman on the staff of the Chester Times, the daily newspaper of her hometown, Chester, Penn. She went on to became the first African-American licensed in the state of California to own a public relations firm.
Otis Cox was employed as a newspaper executive at many newspapers across the southeast during his long career.
William Snider retired as editor in July 1982 after 31 years, but he continued to pen a
column up until 2005.
For 50 years the Pacifica Tribune has been the hometown newspaper for Pacifica residents. For 30 of those years, William Drake served as owner, editor and primary force behind the Tribune from 1959 to 1989.