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In addition to covering the 1992 riots and other historically significant events, Warren Wilson helped facilitate the surrenders of 22 fugitives.
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Richard Sandomir | The New York Times
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10/11/24
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Over four decades, Donald L. Barlett and his colleague James B. Steele at The Philadelphia Inquirer gained renown for resourceful, often explosive investigative journalism.
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Glenn Rifkin | The New York Times
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10/10/24
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From the early 1990s to 2008, Orange County Register obituary reporter Robin Hinch chronicled thousands of lives, trying to capture the essence of each in around 750 words. Now, it’s time for the Register to tell her life story. Hinch died in her sleep early in the morning on Oct. 1. She was 82.
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Jonathan Horwitz | Orange County Register
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10/9/24
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Sammy Lopez, executive director of the New Mexico Press Association, passed away on Sunday, Oct. 6. His family was with him at the hospital, after having suffered a stroke the day before.
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Barbara Beck, president | New Mexico Press Association
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10/8/24
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Tipped off by the detective Frank Serpico, he wrote an explosive series on police corruption in New York City, sparking an investigation by the Knapp commission.
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Trip Gabriel | The New York Times
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10/7/24
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Richard “Dick” Tobin Thieriot was born into the newspaper profession, and he loved it. His great-grandfather co-founded the Chronicle in 1865, he learned the business from the time he could write, and the day before he died on Sept. 27, he was working hard in his office. Like any go-getter editor would.
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Kevin Fagan | San Francisco Chronicle
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10/7/24
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Gladys Marie Van Drie of Estes Park, a visionary in the free-community newspaper publishing industry, passed away on March 31, 2024, at the age of 87, following a brief battle with cancer.
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Staff | E&P Magazine
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9/27/24
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Al McCoy, the longtime radio play-by-play voice of the Phoenix Suns, has passed away. He was 91. McCoy was the longest-tenured team broadcaster in NBA history, calling Suns games for 51 years before retiring in 2023.
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Staff | Inside Radio
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9/23/24
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She steered vacationers and business travelers to choice destinations, talked about the best deals, and offered up savvy tips on how to avoid vexation.
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Sam Roberts | The New York Times
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9/19/24
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You can’t think of James Earl Jones without hearing his voice. The beloved actor died Monday, Sept. 9, according to his agent. He was 93.
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Brandon Griggs and Alli Rosenbloom | CNN
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9/10/24
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Linda Deutsch, a special correspondent for The Associated Press who for nearly 50 years wrote glittering first drafts of history from many of the nation’s most significant criminal and civil trials — Charles Manson, O.J. Simpson, Michael Jackson, among others — died Sunday, Sept. 1. She was 80.
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John Rogers | The Associated Press
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9/3/24
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Robert A. Dubill, an award-winning executive editor with Gannett News Service and a unique and forceful leader at USA TODAY since its inception in 1982, died Friday, Aug. 23, from complications after a fall. He was 88.
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David Colton | Special for USA TODAY
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8/26/24
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A former Greenpeace official, he drew on his command of environmental subjects to persuade his bosses at the cable channel to cover climate issues.
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Trip Gabriel | The New York Times
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8/23/24
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Phil Donahue, whose pioneering daytime talk show launched an indelible television genre that brought success to Oprah Winfrey, Montel Williams, Ellen DeGeneres and many others, died Sunday, Aug. 18. He was 88.
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Julie Carr Smyth | TVNewsCheck
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8/19/24
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Former NPR CEO John Lansing, who oversaw the organization through the pandemic before stepping down in the spring, died Wednesday, Aug. 14, at age 67.
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Angela Fu | Poynter
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8/19/24
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Award-winning journalist Michael Aron has passed away at the age of 78. Known for a majority of his career as a trusted reporter of New Jersey politics, Aron was a fixture in the Trenton press corps and respected by those representatives he scrutinized on both sides of the aisle.
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Staff | The WNET Group
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8/16/24
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Even if you were only half-listening to the radio, you always knew when NPR correspondent Ina Jaffe was on the air. Ina's rich alto voice made you listen — whether she was reporting on politics, a high profile criminal trial, or, toward the end of her career, describing the advances in aging for a beat she created because she saw the need for it.
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Karen Grigsby Bates | NPR
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8/6/24
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Kathy Willens, a pathbreaking photojournalist who helped cement women’s place behind the lens everywhere from the Super Bowl to war-torn Somalia during her nearly 45-year career at The Associated Press, died Tuesday. She was 74.
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Jennifer Peltz | The Associated Press
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7/25/24
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He brought to his writing a sharp sense of humor, honed in stand-up comedy clubs, and never pulled punches even though he was an unabashed Democrat.
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Sam Roberts | The New YorK Times
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7/23/24
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Former FOX Business host Lou Dobbs has died at the age of 78.
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David Rutz | Fox News
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7/19/24
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