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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On Wednesday, May 25, James Don “JD” Swartz passed away peacefully at Franklin Woods Hospital. He was born August 5, 1935, to Don and Maude Jane Barnett Swartz. He lived a beautiful life of 87 years.
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Obituary | Johnson City Press
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5/26/23
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The Wichita Business Journal family is mourning the death of longtime colleague Daniel McCoy.
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Kirk Seminoff | Wichita Business Journal
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5/16/23
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Lesotho authorities must launch a credible investigation into the killing of journalist Ralikonelo "Leqhashasha" Joki and hold those responsible to account, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday.
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Staff | Committee to Protect Journalists
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5/16/23
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Hodding Carter III, a Mississippi journalist and civil rights activist who as U.S. State Department spokesman informed Americans about the Iran hostage crisis and later won awards for his televised documentaries, has died. He was 88.
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Staff | The Associated Press
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5/15/23
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James Shearer, who co-founded Spare Change News some 30 years ago, has died at the age of 64.
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Dan Kennedy | Media Nation
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5/15/23
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Known for his wit and crazy antics, the retired journalist wrote poetry, played jazz bass and rode motorcycles.
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Sarah Hofmann | The Press-Enterprise
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5/15/23
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French international news agency Agence France-Presse says its Ukraine video coordinator was killed Tuesday during a rocket attack near the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.
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Staff | The Associated Press
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5/10/23
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Former Pulitzer Prize Board Co-Chair and Administrator Mike Pride died Monday, April 24, in Florida from complications of a longstanding blood disorder. He was 76.
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Staff | The Pulitzer Prizes
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4/25/23
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Martin Singerman, the son of a Bronx clothing salesman whose storied career led him to become publisher of The New York Post, has died at the age of 96, his family said.
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Ariel Zilber | New York Post
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4/14/23
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Jack Feuer was most recently editorial director at UCLA. His stints as a reporter and editor included MediaPost, Adweek and Inside Media magazine.
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Tanya Gazdik | MediaPost
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4/10/23
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On April 8, Carol Goss Daniels passed away at her home at age 59 after an eight-year battle with colon cancer.
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Staff | Tennessee Press Association
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4/10/23
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