By: E&P Staff Thomas Morgan III, the retired New York Times reporter who served as president of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) and was later inducted into the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association's (NLGJA) Hall of Fame, has died.
Morgan died of a heart attack Monday while visiting Southampton, Mass. He was 56. The death was first reported on Richard Prince's Journal-isms online newsletter on the Maynard Institute's Web site.
Morgan suffered from AIDS at the time of his death.
A native of St. Louis, Morgan attended the University of Missouri on a ROTC scholarship, and served two years as an Air Force officer. He began his journalism career with The Miami Herald in 1975. He later moved to The Washington Post as a reporter and editor. In 1983 he was hired by The New York Times, where he was a reporter and editor. He retired from the Times in 1995.
Morgan was a Nieman fellow from 1989 to 1990.
In 1989, he was elected president of the NABJ. Morgan served on the association's board of directors for 10 years, and was also its treasurer at one point.
He is survived by his partner, Thomas Ciano, of Brooklyn, N.Y., where they lived.
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