Max Frankel, top New York Times editor who led a newspaper in transition, dies at 94

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Max Frankel, who fled Nazi Germany as a boy and rose to pinnacles of American journalism as a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for The New York Times and later as its executive editor during eight years of changing fortunes and technology, died on Sunday (March 23) at his home in Manhattan. He was 94.

His wife, Joyce Purnick, a former reporter and editor at The Times, confirmed the death.

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