Al Salvato, a copy editor and reporter for the Cincinnati Post and Kentucky Post, as well as a freelancer for The New York Times, passed away Monday night at St. Luke Hospital in Fort Thomas, Ky., from complications stemming from leukemia. He was 56.
Salvato is remembered by colleagues as a passionate newspaperman and valued mentor to many young journalists as a news writing professor at the University of Cincinnati. He also oversaw the campus newspaper, the News Record.
A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Salvato graduated from Morehead State University in Pike County, Ky. After graduation, Salvato worked as a teacher at Calumet College of St. Joseph in Whiting, Ind.
It wasn't until moving to the Cincinnati area in the early 1980s to teach at Northern Kentucky University that Salvato began reporting for the Kentucky Post. Salvato covered several important local events, including a 1988 bus crash in Carrollton, Ky., that killed 27 people and the Pete Rose gambling scandal that rocked Cincinnati a year later.
Salvato was involved in several professional and community organizations, working with the Cincinnati chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and volunteering his time as a track athlete for several fundraising efforts throughout the Cincinnati area.
Salvato is survived by his wife of 25 years, Debbie Salvato; two sons, Dan and Joseph; a daughter, Kristy; mother, Lillian Salvato; sister, Roseanne Muscari and three grandchildren.
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