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Bart Story, a veteran entertainment research executive whose work shaped marketing strategies for some of Hollywood’s biggest film and television campaigns, died Tuesday. He was 63. Story died … more
Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died. He was 91. more
As head of the editorial page, he encouraged The Chicago Tribune’s support of Barack Obama, resulting in the paper’s first endorsement of a Democrat running for the White House. more
After making a fortune on Wall Street, he bought The Nation magazine and founded The New York Observer, which one writer called a “maypole of Manhattan gossip and intrigue.” more
He gave readers a comprehensive and lyrical account of the historic mission in 1969. His science coverage as a Pulitzer-winning journalist and an author took him around the world. more
She won two world titles and six Canadian national championships, and was also a television anchor, reporter and commentator. more
The TV communications ranks have lost a beloved longtime member: Robert Pietranton, most recently SVP Publicity & Communications for the Warner Bros. Television Group, died suddenly Nov. 19 at his Los Angeles home. He was 56. more
Dan McGrath, a writer and producer who worked on “Saturday Night Live” and “King of the Hill” and won an Emmy for an episode of “The Simpsons,” has died, his sister announced Sunday. He was 61. more
Avila served as an ABC News senior correspondent and a “20/20” correspondent. more
He also served as president of The Washington Post and led a trade organization for airline companies. more
A correspondent for Reuters, he became a global symbol of China’s isolation and of the anti-foreigner hysteria spawned by its Cultural Revolution. more
Ed Moloney, an authoritative chronicler of the Troubles in Northern Ireland through relentless reporting and deep sourcing on both sides of the bloody sectarian strife that engulfed that small region of the United Kingdom for 30 years, died on Oct. 17 in Manhattan. He was 77. more
He became a stalwart of Philadelphia’s rock airwaves after moving from California, broadcasting a live show for more than 40 years. more
While serving as the paper’s general manager, he played a central role in the 1975 pressmen’s strike. He was “the crucial person in every respect,” said former publisher Don Graham. more
A veteran journalist, he covered the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and provided the pool report on the ceremony aboard Air Force One. more
David Rau, 76, owner of Six Rivers Media LLC, died Oct. 18 after fighting Alzheimer’s for more than two years. more
Michael Days, a pillar of Philadelphia journalism who championed young Black journalists and was beloved among reporters who worked for him at the Philadelphia Daily News and Philadelphia Inquirer, died suddenly on Saturday, Oct. 18, at 72 in Trenton. more
She started as the magazine’s glamorous receptionist and became one of its more singular writers. In one of her last articles, she memorialized her time (and lovers) there. more
Susan Stamberg, a “founding mother” of National Public Radio and the first female broadcaster to host a national news program, has died. She was 87. more
At The New York Times and then ARTnews, which he bought, he brought an investigative edge to stories about artwork looted by the Germans during World War II and the Soviets afterward. more
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