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In the late 1940s, she was the only woman working on radio documentaries for CBS’s Edward R. Murrow. In Los Angeles, she was a pioneering newscaster and anchor. more
He was a well-known and well-loved radio journalist in Boston and beyond, famous for his deep and reassuring voice, his gift for public speaking and the way he lit up a room. more
He spent nearly 40 years writing for The Washington Post and was known for his incisive and barbed commentary. more
Ruth Ashton Taylor, the first female television newscaster in Los Angeles and one of the first in the country, died Thursday in Northern California, her family announced. She was 101. A Los Angeles-area native, Taylor trailblazed a 50-year career in journalism, during which she interviewed the likes of Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer, worked with industry icons including Edward R. Murrow and earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. more
Howard Weaver died on Dec. 14 at his home in Sacramento. He was 73. The cause was complications of pancreatic cancer, his wife, Barbara Hodgin, said. more
John Morrow Derby — a former reporter who started his own small town, community newspaper literally on his own kitchen table, and then turned his passion into a 60-year odyssey — has passed away. more
Randall Stone “Randy” Lieberman, 62, the long-time publisher of the Chester County Press (West Grove, Pennsylvania) and several regional magazines, passed away on Dec. 26 at Christiana Hospital in Newark, Delaware, surrounded by his wife and children. more
As executive editor from 1994 to 2001, he oversaw a period of growth, expanding national and international readerships, creating new sections and ushering in the digital age with a Times website. more
Rayner Pike, a retired reporter for The Associated Press who contributed his encyclopedic knowledge of news and crafty writing skills to some of New York City’s biggest stories for over four decades, has died. He was 90. more
Joe Goodman, one of the last of his kind, died peacefully Sunday morning, Dec. 31, in the house his grandfather built along the banks of Muddy Creek outside Clemmons. He would have been 87 in a couple of weeks. more
Ruth Seymour, an influential and brash station manager who transformed KCRW in Santa Monica, California, into a major creative force in Los Angeles and beyond, died Friday, Dec. 22, at the age of 88 after a long illness. more
He sought more diversity among its newsroom employees and co-wrote a full-scale, and modernized, edition of the paper’s internal style guide. more
Greg Bassett, founding editor of the Salisbury Independent and former executive editor of The Daily Times, died Sunday, Dec. 10. He was 63. more
Carol Nunnelley, founding executive director of the Alabama Initiative for Independent Journalism, died Dec. 3 after a long illness. more
William "Bill" King Mitchell, 82, retired sports writer for The State (Columbia, South Carolina), died Nov. 28 at Agape - Lexington Community Hospice House after a year's struggle with liver cancer. more
Warner Miller Montgomery, Ph.D., co-owner and past president of The Columbia Star newspaper in South Carolina, passed away Nov. 24 from complications of advanced dementia. He was 84. more
Anthony Campbell, the former executive editor and managing editor of The Denver Post who led the paper to a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1986 for a series on missing children, has died, according to former associates at the Post. He was 82. more
As of Dec. 5, CPJ’s preliminary investigations showed at least 63 journalists and media workers were among the more than 16,000 killed since the war began on Oct. 7 — with more than 15,500 Palestinian deaths in Gaza and the West Bank and 1,200 deaths in Israel. The deadliest day of the war for journalist deaths was its first day, Oct. 7, with six journalists killed; the second-deadliest day occurred on Nov. 18, with five killed. more
Phillip Meek, a former president and publisher of the Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram, died Nov. 21 in his Michigan home. He was 86. more
His political journal challenged liberal and conservative orthodoxies for decades. more
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