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    <title>Former San Pedro News-Pilot Editor Bob Beck Dies at 84</title>
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<description><![CDATA[His career spanned the days of linotype machines to the computers that were to transform the newspaper industry as the world had known it.

Bob Beck, who served at the helm of the San Pedro News-Pilot for decades before he retired in 1991, died Satur ...]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 09:56:05 GMT</pubDate>    
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    <title>Dow Jones &#38; Co. Heir William Cox Jr. Dies at 82</title>
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<description><![CDATA[William C. Cox Jr., the patriarch of the Bancroft clan that controlled Dow Jones &#38; Co. for 105 years and sold it to Rupert Murdoch&#38;rsquo;s News Corp. (NWSA) in a decision sparking a family feud, has died. He was 82.  

He died on May 1 at his ...]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 14:01:48 GMT</pubDate>    
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    <title>Lagrange Street News Editor Martin Blaszczyk Dies at 59</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Martin A. Blaszczyk, editor of the Lagrange Street News, a monthly
newspaper that connected residents and former neighbors of its namesake
Polish neighborhood with news, gossip, and community functions, died
Saturday at Flower Hospital, Sylvania.

Th ...]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:16:50 GMT</pubDate>    
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    <title>Former Newspaper Editor Gordon Abbott Jr. Dies at 85</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Gordon Abbott Jr. was endlessly curious.

That&#38;rsquo;s what led him to
leave business school after a year to become a reporter at the
Gloucester Daily Times in 1956 and eventually become the editor of that
paper and the Beverly Times.

&#38;ldquo ...]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:13:46 GMT</pubDate>    
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    <title>Longtime Iola Register Publisher Emerson Lynn Jr. Dies at 88</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Emerson Lynn Jr., who became one of Kansas&#39; best-known editorial writers
as the longtime publisher of The Iola Register, died Wednesday after a
career in journalism spanning more than 60 years. He was 88.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:10:34 GMT</pubDate>    
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    <title>Former Newspaper Publisher Robert Murphy Dies at 83</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It didn&#38;rsquo;t matter whether Robert W. &#38;ldquo;Bob&#38;rdquo; Murphy was working or playing sports, he gave it his all, his family said.

That&#38;rsquo;s
why he worked until about 10 years ago, then took night classes at the
University of D ...]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:58:56 GMT</pubDate>    
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    <title>Former Colorado Springs Gazette Editor Jim Bishop Dies at 69 </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Jim Bishop, former deputy managing editor and city editor of the
Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph, died Thursday in Victoria, Texas,
where he had been managing editor and executive editor of the Victoria
Advocate for 15 years.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:54:24 GMT</pubDate>    
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    <title>Former Newspaper Publisher Edward Dardanell Dies at 89</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Family members of Edward L. Dardanell described him as a man who
lived life large and took control of whatever efforts he was involved in
from the time he left Penn Hills High School as valedictorian and class
president, through the ownership of news ...]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:47:27 GMT</pubDate>    
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    <title>Former L.A. Times Senior Editor Noel Greenwood Dies at 75</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Noel Greenwood, a former senior editor at the Los Angeles Times who
helped shape local and California coverage as the newspaper outgrew its
modest local ambitions and transformed itself into one of national
stature, died Sunday at his Santa Barbara h ...]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:38:42 GMT</pubDate>    
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    <title>Longtime Newspaper Publisher Calvin Nelson Clyde Jr. Dies at 92</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Longtime Tyler newspaper publisher Calvin Nelson Clyde Jr. is being
remembered as a man who loved his community, had a razor-sharp wit and
many enduring friendships.

Clyde, 92, died Sunday in Tyler. He was
publisher of the Tyler Morning Telegraph, t ...]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:22:05 GMT</pubDate>    
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    <title>USA TODAY Founder Al Neuharth Dies at 89</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Allen H. Neuharth, the newspaper visionary and former Gannett chairman
who founded USA TODAY, helped create a museum dedicated to news and
became one of the industry&#39;s most influential and sometimes
controversial figures, died Friday at his home  ...]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:54:22 GMT</pubDate>    
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    <title>Postmedia Network Chairman Ronald Osborne Dies at 66</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ronald Osborne, the long-time Canadian media and telecom executive
who began his career in accounting and presided over a transitional
period at an Ontario utility, has died.

The 66-year-old chairman of the Postmedia Network Inc. board, who often we ...]]></description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:08:26 GMT</pubDate>    
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    <title>Retired Newspaper Publisher W.C. (Bill) King Dies at 87</title>
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<description><![CDATA[W. C. King, retired newspaper publisher, died on March 31, 2013 at his home in Tucson, Ariz. at the age of 87. King was born in Scott City, Kan. on May 16, 1925. He began a lifetime newspaper career while in high school at his hometown newspaper, the ...]]></description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:00:46 GMT</pubDate>    
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    <title>Ex-AP Writer George McArthur Dies at 88</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Born in the Deep South and caught up in the romance of journalism at an early age, George McArthur was not one to let social taboos or politics interfere with a good story.

As a campus reporter for the local newspaper, covering civil rights and raci ...]]></description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:52:15 GMT</pubDate>    
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    <title> New York Times Reporter McCandlish Phillips Dies at 85</title>
    <link>http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Obituaries/Article/New-York-Times-Reporter-McCandlish-Phillips-Dies-at-85</link>
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<description><![CDATA[McCandlish Phillips, a former reporter for The New York Times who wrote
one of the most famous articles in the newspaper&#38;rsquo;s history &#38;mdash; exposing
the Orthodox Jewish background of a senior Ku Klux Klan official &#38;mdash; before fors ...]]></description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:49:35 GMT</pubDate>    
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