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Hired to run a troubled Mississippi affiliate of NBC, he turned it into a respected and highly profitable operation, with a more diverse staff.
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Clay Risen | The New York Times
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8/7/23
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James Larkin was expected to sit for a three-month trial starting next week on charges stemming from his personal classified ads website backpage.com.
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Joe Duhownik | Courthouse News Service
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8/3/23
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Jeff Brodsky, whose passion for journalism inspired young reporters across New Hampshire, dies at 49
Jeffrey H. Brodsky, an accomplished reporter and former editor of the Central High School newspaper who inspired an annual award honoring young journalists, died Wednesday, July 26, at his home in Manchester following a decade-long battle with an aggressive form of Parkinson’s disease.
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Paul Feely | New Hampshire Union Leader
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7/31/23
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Linda Seamster Shelton, publisher of The Gazette-Virginian (South Boston, Virginia), died Wednesday afternoon, July 26, at the age of 76.
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Miranda Baines | The Gazette-Virginian
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7/27/23
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Larry Pryor, a former Los Angeles Times journalist who embraced the digital world before much of the industry and whose work as a reporter and editor covering the environment spurred action on climate issues, died on July 13 of complications from Parkinson’s disease. He was 86.
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Debbie Truong and Sandy Banks | Los Angeles Times
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7/21/23
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Charles W. “Chuck’’ Cherry II of Daytona Beach, a fierce proponent of the Black Press and a longtime warrior for social justice, died on Saturday, July 15, at age 66.
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Staff | Daytona Times
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7/18/23
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Rolfe Neill, publisher of The Charlotte Observer from 1975 until his retirement in 1997, died July 14 at age 90 of complications from peritoneal cancer, his daughter Ingrid Ebert of Kernersville said.
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Dannye Romine Powell and Michael Gordon | The Charlotte Observer
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7/18/23
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It is with profound sadness that we share news of the passing of our beloved Elise Dione Finch Henriques.
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Staff | CBS News
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7/18/23
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He spent two decades guiding a popular newspaper Sunday supplement as its revenue and circulation grew, reaching nearly 40 million readers at one point.
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Richard Sandomir | The New York Times
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7/14/23
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In a 47-year career at The New York Times, he covered Cold War diplomacy in Europe, famine in Africa and genocide in Southeast Asia and was also an author.
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Robert D. McFadden | The New York Times
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7/10/23
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In addition to working at The Washington Post, David Richards also had a stint as chief theater reviewer at The New York Times and wrote a biography of movie star Jean Seberg.
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Adam Bernstein | The Washington Post
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6/29/23
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Joe Murray died at his home Sunday, June 25, at the age of 82. Services will be at 2 p.m. July 5 at First Baptist Church.
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Staff | Lufkin Daily News
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6/29/23
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David Bohrman, a former veteran CNN producer and executive who pioneered the use of the “Magic Wall,” died Sunday, June 25, following complications after hip surgery, according to his family. He was 69.
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Juliana Liu | CNN
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6/26/23
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George Gedda, a workhorse veteran of The Associated Press whose coverage of the State Department and international relations spanned more than four decades and who played a major role in explaining U.S. foreign policy to the American public from Vietnam to Cuba, Afghanistan and Iraq, has died. He was 82.
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Matthew Lee | The Associated Press
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6/19/23
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Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers that detailed U.S. actions during the Vietnam war, died June 15 at his home in Kensington, California. He was 92. The cause, his family said in a statement, was pancreatic cancer.
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Ron Elving | NPR
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6/16/23
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John C. Tompkins, 69, of Tucson, Arizona, passed on June 2. He grew up in a newspaper family and at the young age of 21 purchased The Rochelle (Illinois) News-Leader in 1975. For the next 48 years, he grew News Media Corporation to over 75 publications spanning across nine states.
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Obituary and The Tompkins Times
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6/14/23
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He spent much of his career at the Miami Herald before a brief stint at The Washington Post.
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Staff | The Washington Post
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6/9/23
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Hoyt Purvis died on Friday, May 26, after an illness, said his wife Marion Purvis. He was 83.
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Bill Bowden | Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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6/2/23
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In the early hours of May 31, two assailants on a motorcycle shot and killed radio journalist Cris Bundoquin on the C5 Road in the city of Calapan, in Oriental Mindoro province, according to multiple news reports.
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Staff | Committee to Protect Journalists
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5/31/23
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John Widdison, a former executive managing editor of the Telegram & Gazette in Worcester, Massachusetts, died Tuesday, May 23, at the age of 84.
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Dan Kennedy | Media Nation
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5/26/23
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