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His software brought printing into the digital age, allowing users to stop manually splicing columns of text and graphics and instead create layouts on a virtual pasteboard. more
David T. Lucey Sr., a much-admired, distinguished and decades-long veteran of the New England newspaper industry, who served as first post-Utter family publisher of The Westerly Sun in Rhode Island from 1999 until his retirement in 2004, died in Punta Gorda, Florida, on March 19, at the age of 84. more
He routinely took on the powerful and was part of a Pulitzer-winning team at The Anchorage Daily News that investigated alcoholism and suicide among Native Alaskans. more
A television journalist for four decades with 30 Emmy Awards, Ernie Anastos especially enjoyed delivering good news. more
For decades, he wrote a syndicated column in The Washington Post promoting nonviolence. That became the subject of a course he taught for nearly 40 years. more
Tampa Bay Times sportswriter Joey Knight passed away on Friday morning, leaving behind a legacy of compassion and coverage. more
Anna Murdoch-Mann, 81, passed away Tuesday, Feb. 17 — surrounded by family — at her home in Palm Beach, Florida. more
As a journalist and author, she wrote meticulous portraits of people for The New Yorker. Her book “Is There No Place on Earth for Me?” won the Pulitzer Prize. more
The Asian American Journalists Association mourns the loss of Abe Kwok, a longtime AAJA leader and journalist at the Arizona Republic, who recently died at age 59. more
The former Guardian, Observer, Mirror and Telegraph journalist Chris Boffey has been described as a “brilliant raconteur” and “wonderful boss” after his death at the age of 74. more
He seemed to know everyone at the Holy See, and it showed in his reporting for the National Catholic Reporter and his website, Crux, though some said he grew too close to his sources. more
He played a critical role in ABC Sports’ reporting on the attack by a Palestinian group at the 1972 Summer Games in Munich that left 11 Israeli team members dead. more
Rocco Commisso, the veteran cable TV executive turned founder of the cable giant Mediacom and owner of Italy’s ACF Fiorentina, has died. He was 76. more
David Chivers, a former president and publisher of the Des Moines Register and a digital journalism and AI consultant, died Jan. 1 in Des Moines. more
Scott Adams, whose popular comic strip “Dilbert” captured the frustration of beleaguered, white-collar cubicle workers and satirized the ridiculousness of modern office culture until he was abruptly dropped from syndication in 2023 for racist remarks, has died. He was 68. more
He spent two decades hosting the PBS series, during the formative years of personal computing. It was seen in more than 300 cities at its peak. more
CBS chief research and analytics officer Radha Subramanyam died Monday (Jan. 5) after a battle with cancer. She was 55. more
Richard Pollak, the founding editor of More magazine, an irreverent monthly journalism review that during the 1970s critiqued the media’s coverage of contentious subjects like the Vietnam War, President Richard M. Nixon and the oil industry, died on Dec. 27 in Stockholm. He was 91. more
She announced her terminal cancer diagnosis in a New Yorker essay that took aim at Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom she called “an embarrassment.” more
Andy Burt, a business journalist at places such as Industry Dive and CFO.com, died on Christmas Eve due to a heart attack. He was 49. Burt most recently was vice president of digital media at Clarion Events. Before that, he was managing editor at Investment News. more
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