Obituaries
George Ramos played a key role in a groundbreaking series on Latinos in Southern California that won the paper a Pulitzer Prize in 1984. He also contributed to the paper's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles riots and the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
Frank C. Miles worked for Thomson Newspapers Inc. for 42 years and helped the company becoming one of the largest North American publishers of community papers.
During his long career, Thomas A. Riordan was editor and publisher at several publications in Michigan and Ohio. He also wrote profiles featuring weekly editors for Editor and Publisher magazine.
Bob Cohen was known in the industry for transforming Scarborough into a multifaceted research company that captured consumer behavior information and media usage data on the local market level.
Alice F. Bowie worked as a reporter and editor from 1945 to 1949 for the Harford Gazette in Harford County, Maryland before joining The Evening Sun in Baltimore, Md.
Mark Davis Richmond’s newspaper career spanned three decades and his worked appeared in many states. He also established many successful businesses following his retirement from daily newspapers in 2004.
Tom Breen’s journalism career began with weeklies in his native Massachusetts, which led him to work at several publications in Washington, D.C., California and Arizona. Breen eventually returned back East to work for The Washington Times and Florida Today.
For 38 years, Cleveland Plain Dealer critic Jane Scott covered the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, the Doors, the Who, the Beach Boys, Bruce Springsteen and every other major and minor group that played her town . When she retired in 2002, she was, at 82, the oldest rock critic in the country.
Peggy May is best known for her contributions to the Northwest Florida Daily News over five decades. She was hired in December 1963 as the society editor and quickly became the women’s editor.
Don Towles joined the Courier-Journal and Louisville Times Co. in 1956, starting as public-service manager and later becoming director of public service and promotion. From 1971 to 1976, he served as director of circulation, then became director of public affairs.
At The Daily News, where F. Gilman Spencer was responsible for the editorial pages as well as the news pages, Spencer brought a feistier, flashier style and a carnivorous appetite for reporting on city politics and corruption.
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