Obituaries

Eric Talmadge, who as North Korea bureau chief for The Associated Press tenaciously chronicled life and politics in one of

Warren H. Phillips, who started at The Wall Street Journal as a $40-a-week proofreader and then vaulted through the ranks

Robert Pear, a reporter whose understated demeanor belied a tenacious pursuit of sources and scoops during his 40 years at

Bill Fleischman, a former columnist and sports reporter for The News Journal and Philadelphia Daily News who covered the Flyers during the

 Gordon McLeod, a distinguished and well-respected media executive who held senior positions at Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, Time Inc.,

The newspaper industry and Connecticut lost a titan of the free press and devoted patron of the community Saturday with

Retired News & Observer editorial cartoonist Dwane Powell, whose drawings summarized and satirized decades of North Carolina political debates and

Jonathan Wolman, editor and publisher of The Detroit News for the past 12 years, died Monday of complications from pancreatic cancer.

E. Ralph Hostetter, the former publisher and owner of the Cecil Whig and current chairman and publisher of American Farm

Tom Hill, longtime publisher of The Oak Ridger and a leader in Tennessee media and Oak Ridge for more than