Obituaries
Earl McRae wrote for many papers over his career, including the Toronto Star, the Ottawa Journal, the Ottawa Citizen and for the last two decades the Ottawa Sun.
Howard Hays spent 51 years at the newspaper. During that time, the paper won the Pulitzer Prize for meritorious public service in 1968.
Granados Chapa was a key player in Mexico's march toward democracy, a founder of the investigative magazine Proceso and three-time winner of the country's National Journalism Award.
Walter Hempton's long career in newspaper operations started with the Wilmington (Del.) News Journal. He moved on to the Detroit Free Press as operations manager, then to VP of operations with the Denver Post. Hempton also started the first free and independent Russian newspaper, WE/mbl.
Evarts Walton Opie Jr. took over the family newspaper, The News Leader, as president and publisher in 1981 and stayed at the newspaper’s helm until he retired in 1994.
Madelyn R. Merwin worked at The Star for 32 years, where she ultimately became the Chicago-Heights based publication’s first woman associate editor on the news desk.
Douglas LaChance was president of the Newspaper and Mail Deliverers’ Union when it represented drivers for 16 principal newspaper distributors in the New York metropolitan region as well as for New York City’s three principal newspapers: The New York Post, The Daily News and The New York Times.
John Porter was publisher of The Rexburg Standard and The Rexburg Journal for more than 40 years until his sons took over in the 1970s. Porter also served as Rexburg mayor from 1973 until 1990.
Universal Uclick launched “Ziggy” four decades ago as one of its very first comic features. According to the syndicate, the minimalist strip featuring the rounded, sweet but beleaguered title character is carried in more than 500 papers
John Curran worked for the Niagara Gazette, then later joined the Associated Press in Charleston, Va., in 1989. He transferred to Boston in 1993 and a year later was promoted to Atlantic City. He took command of AP in Vermont in 2006.
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