‘Everything had to have a purpose’: Remembering journalism visionary Richard Curtis

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He was the fastest typesetter in Technician history, back when every typewritten story had to be manually entered into the NC State student newspaper’s IBM MT/ST magnetic tape word-processing system.

And he became one of the most influential journalists of the 20th century.

Richard Curtis, founding managing editor for design at USA Today and a 1972 graduate of NC State’s College of Design, died Sunday after a prolonged battle against cancer. He was 75.

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