Obituaries
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.
Alexandar Brook was best known for his contributions to the newspaper industry through his work as the former owner, editor and operator of the York County Coast Star for two decades, beginning in 1957 and ending in 1977 when he sold the publication
After nine years as a feature writer at the Sentinel, Wally Trabing took on the job of daily columnist in 1962, producing his "Mostly About People" column five days a week until his retirement in 1994.
Sam Logan was a partial owner of Real Times, which publishes black newspapers in Pittsburgh, Chicago and Memphis, and the Michigan FrontPage, a companion paper to the Chronicle.