Retired Free Press managing editor, who nurtured people and newspapers, dies at 72

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The Detroit Free Press and the craft of journalism have lost a friend, inspiration and champion.

Nancy Laughlin, whose more than four decades in newspapers included 24 years at the Free Press, died at a hospital in Jackson on Friday, Oct. 18, at 72. She had been taken there from her cherished lakefront home in the Irish Hills after a lengthy tussle with chronic lung problems.

Laughlin led the newsroom through countless big events. She joined the Free Press in 1992 and rose to increasingly influential roles, including nation/world editor, news editor and eventually managing editor — second in command of the Free Press newsroom.

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