Obituaries
Ron Liebau began his 33-year career in journalism as a reporter
at the Cincinnati Post.
Saundra Smokes started her career at the Herald-Journal in 1977 and held a variety of reporting and editing positions in the newsroom.
Judith Crist spent nearly two decades as a reporter and editor at the New York
Herald Tribune — working her way from the society desk to prize-winning
education writer to arts editor — before being named film critic.
Damian Guevara spent 2001 at The Plain Dealer as a Newhouse Fellow, writing for the Metro section before becoming a reporter from 2003 through 2008.
John Bogert landed a position at the Glendale News-Press
and made journalism a full-time career. The Daily Breeze hired him as a
feature reporter in 1979.
Charles Price worked at Cleveland's Call and Post for six years as a writer and photographer.
Scott Patton retired from The Post in 2009 after 25 years at the newspaper.
Jean White spent nearly 30 years writing for The Post before retiring in
1982. In the 1960s, she became one of the first women to join the
national desk, and she wrote extensively about civil rights.
The Daily Record began publishing Dec. 6, 1950 when founder Hoover Adams took on The Dunn Dispatch, the only other city newspaper and then purchased it 28 years later.
William Raspberry started as a teletype
operator. He soon became a reporter and began writing columns for the local news section and then from 1970 on, for
the op-ed page.
Richard Scudder and William Dean Singleton combined with Media General Inc. to
form Garden States Newspapers in 1985, and then launched MediaNews Group
as an umbrella company.
For more than a decade, Bob Sokolsky wrote a weekly radio column for San
Bernardino County's two largest newspapers.
Michael Ybarra wrote for the Journal about his
participation in demanding outdoor sports, including trips kayaking in
Patagonia and ice climbing in Montana.