John Geddes has died. He managed The New York Times through its digital transition.

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John Geddes, who as a savvy and convivial managing editor of The New York Times oversaw production of the daily print newspaper and the newsroom’s turbulent transition into a digital operation, died on Tuesday, Oct. 20, in a Manhattan hospital. He was 74.

The cause was lung disease linked to the medication he was taking for rheumatoid arthritis, said his wife, Jyll Holzman, a former senior vice president for advertising at The Times.

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