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Don Crandall Becker
Former Free Press president was a champion for the city of Detroit
Don Crandall Becker, a former president of the Detroit (Michigan) Free Press who also served as chairman of the Detroit Chamber of Commerce, has died. more
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Edwin Madison Taylor III
Former executive editor of Burlington Times-News died Jan. 6
Edwin Madison Taylor III, the former executive editor of the Burlington (North Carolina) Times-News, died Thursday, Jan. 6, at Duke University Hospital in Durham. more
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Minnesota activist, journalist Mel Reeves dies from COVID-19
Mel Reeves, a longtime Minneapolis civil rights activist and journalist for Minnesota’s oldest Black-owned newspaper, has died from complications due to COVID-19. more
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Victor Hanson II
Former Birmingham News publisher Victor Hanson II dies
Victor Hanson II, former publisher of The Birmingham (Alabama) News and the head of an editorial board that won the newspaper’s first Pulitzer Prize for editorials in 1991, died Friday, Jan. 7. more
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Rex Rust, co-president of Rust Communications, tosses the ball to his brother, Gary II, during the dedication and open house of Southeast Missouri State University's new Rust Center for Media on Oct. 7, 2016. (File photo / Southeast Missourian)
Rex Rust — finance expert, community leader, athlete — dies at age 52
Rex Dearmont Rust, co-president of Rust Communications, died Thursday evening after a yearlong battle with cancer. more
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Mike Sample, longtime Titusville Herald and Forest Press owner and publisher, dies at 55
For nearly 30 years, Mike Sample could be found fixing computers, giving layout suggestions, adjusting headlines and answering phone calls throughout The Herald office. more
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Only death could keep this investigative reporter from exposing secrets
Bill Morlin was a local shoe-leather reporter so well-sourced, he could get the details on any crime-related story in a matter of hours. more
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Black newspaper publisher Mary Alice Jervay Thatch, 78, dies
Mary Alice Jervay Thatch, the third-generation editor and publisher of a historic Black newspaper in North Carolina and a driving force behind the pardons of the Wilmington 10, has died. She was 78. more
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Beverly Russell, who ran design magazines with flair, dies at 87
Beverly Russell, a British American journalist and editor who led the design magazines Interiors and Architecture, advocating for women to seize their place in media and design, died on Dec. 11 at her home in Albuquerque. She was 87. more
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James Burgess, former State Journal publisher and WNA past president, dies at 85
James E. “Jim” Burgess, a longtime publisher for Lee Enterprises, past president of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association, and member of the Wisconsin Newspaper Hall of Fame, died … more
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Michael Keever
Michael Keever had great passion for newspapers, television and his family
Michael Keever, the long-time senior vice president and chief marketing officer of NTVB Media, died Saturday from complications related to COVID-19. He was 55. more
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Richard J. Cichelli
Richard J. Cichelli, former owner of SCS, dies at age 77
Richard J. Cichelli, 77, of Upper Nazareth Township, passed away on Thursday, Dec. 9, at home following a stroke. more
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Murray Cohen
Newspaper executive Murray Cohen dies at 92
Murray Cohen, 92, of Delphos and Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, passed away on Tuesday, Dec. 7. more
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Fred Hiatt
Fred Hiatt, Washington Post editorial page editor, dies at 66
Fred Hiatt, a onetime foreign correspondent who in 2000 became The Washington Post’s editorial page editor and greatly expanded the global reach of the newspaper’s opinion writers in the era of 9/11, the election of Barack Obama and the destabilizing presidency of Donald Trump, died Dec. 6 at a hospital in New York City. more
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Spokane Daily Chronicle, Spokesman-Review reporter Bill Morlin, ‘a journalism giant,’ dies at 75
Bill Morlin, the dogged investigative reporter who covered everything from neo-Nazis and white supremacists to crooks and corrupt politicians in some four decades at the Spokane, Washington, newspapers, died Saturday. He was 75. more
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Cecil Hurt, longtime Tuscaloosa News sports editor and columnist, dies at 62
Cecil Hurt, longtime sports columnist at The Tuscaloosa (Alabama) News, died Tuesday at UAB Hospital in Birmingham from complications from pneumonia. more
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Frank Quine
Frank Quine, a longtime news media executive, died Oct. 31
Francis E. (Frank) Quine, who spent 24 years working at the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism after 18 years with the American Press Institute (API), died Oct. 31 at his home in Broadlands, Virginia. The cause has not been determined. more
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Bill Collins
Former Index-Journal editor Bill Collins dies at 88
William A. “Bill” Collins, who had a 32-year career at the Index-Journal, died Tuesday. more
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Award-winning Mississippi newspaper editor Mosby dies at 70
Ray Mosby, a Mississippi weekly newspaper publisher and editor who won awards for his no-nonsense editorial writing, died Tuesday. He was 70. more
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Robert Arthur Olinto
Robert Arthur Olinto, former market researcher, dies at the age of 76
Robert Arthur Olinto of Aliso Viejo, California, born June 29, 1945, an eternal optimist with a passion for life, family, photography and writing, passed away on Aug. 17, 2021, at the age of 76. more
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