By: Jerry Krupnick, a longtime editor and television writer for The Star-Ledger of Newark, died Thursday. He was 82.
Krupnick died of complications from congestive heart failure, the newspaper reported in a story posted on its Web site.
Krupnick started working for the Star-Ledger in 1950, covering television as the medium was in its infancy. He created TV Time of the Week, one of the nation's first Sunday TV magazines, and wrote about television up to, and even after, his retirement from the newspaper in 1998.
Krupnick also served as the Star-Ledger's Sunday editor for almost 15 years.
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Jacob "Jack" Landau
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Jacob "Jack" Landau, a reporter who dubbed himself a "First Amendment guerrilla" and helped organize a journalism advocacy group, died Sunday. He was 74.
Landau died at an Arlington, Va., hospital after a long illness, said his daughter Ariel Landau of Greenbelt, Md. He had been living in Falls Church, Va.
The journalist began his career with newspapers in New York and went on to work for The Associated Press and The Washington Post in the 1960s before establishing himself as a U.S. Supreme Court reporter for Newhouse Newspapers.
He served as a spokesman for Attorney General John Mitchell early in the Nixon administration, helping to come up with new rules requiring the attorney general's approval for a media subpoena.
He returned to Newhouse in 1970. In the same year he helped launch the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, later serving as its executive director from 1974 to 1985.
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