Joe Goodman, Pulitzer Prize winning Winston-Salem Journal editor and reporter, dies at 86 Joe Goodman, one of the last of his kind, died peacefully Sunday morning, Dec. 31, in the house his grandfather built along the banks of Muddy Creek outside Clemmons. He would have been 87 in a couple of weeks.more Frank Tursi, special correspondent | Winston-Salem Journal|1/2/24 |
Ruth Seymour, KCRW manager who shaped the sound of public radio from Santa Monica, dies at 88 Ruth Seymour, an influential and brash station manager who transformed KCRW in Santa Monica, California, into a major creative force in Los Angeles and beyond, died Friday, Dec. 22, at the age of 88 after a long illness.more Jon Kalish | Current|1/1/24 |
William G. Connolly, editor who updated The New York Times, dies at 86 He sought more diversity among its newsroom employees and co-wrote a full-scale, and modernized, edition of the paper’s internal style guide.more Clay Risen | The New York Times|12/15/23 |
Greg Bassett, Salisbury Independent editor and longtime Daily Times editor, dies at age 63 Greg Bassett, founding editor of the Salisbury Independent and former executive editor of The Daily Times, died Sunday, Dec. 10. He was 63.more Keith Demko | Salisbury Daily Times|12/12/23 |
Lifelong journalist and BirminghamWatch founder Carol Nunnelley dies Carol Nunnelley, founding executive director of the Alabama Initiative for Independent Journalism, died Dec. 3 after a long illness.more Staff | BirminghamWatch|12/7/23 |
Bill 'The Coach' Mitchell, retired sports writer for The State, dies at 82 William "Bill" King Mitchell, 82, retired sports writer for The State (Columbia, South Carolina), died Nov. 28 at Agape - Lexington Community Hospice House after a year's struggle with liver cancer.more Obituary | The State|12/7/23 |
Warner Montgomery, co-owner and past president of The Columbia Star, dies Warner Miller Montgomery, Ph.D., co-owner and past president of The Columbia Star newspaper in South Carolina, passed away Nov. 24 from complications of advanced dementia. He was 84.more Obituary | Columbia Star|12/7/23 |
Editor who led Denver paper to a Pulitzer Prize for series on missing children dies Anthony Campbell, the former executive editor and managing editor of The Denver Post who led the paper to a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1986 for a series on missing children, has died, according to former associates at the Post. He was 82.more Vince Bzdek | The Denver Gazette|12/5/23 |
Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war — as of Dec. 5 As of Dec. 5, CPJ’s preliminary investigations showed at least 63 journalists and media workers were among the more than 16,000 killed since the war began on Oct. 7 — with more than 15,500 Palestinian deaths in Gaza and the West Bank and 1,200 deaths in Israel. The deadliest day of the war for journalist deaths was its first day, Oct. 7, with six journalists killed; the second-deadliest day occurred on Nov. 18, with five killed.more Staff | Committee to Protect Journalists|12/5/23 |
‘Giant of intellect’: Former Fort Worth Star-Telegram president, publisher dies at 86 Phillip Meek, a former president and publisher of the Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram, died Nov. 21 in his Michigan home. He was 86.more Nicole Lopez and Harrison Mantas | Fort Worth Star-Telegram|11/29/23 |
Charles Peters, founder of The Washington Monthly, dies at 96 His political journal challenged liberal and conservative orthodoxies for decades.more Robert D. McFadden | The New York Times|11/27/23 |
The Telegraph's editor, Ron DeBrock, dies at 62 Ron DeBrock, an award-winning journalist and editor of The Telegraph (Alton, Illinois) since 2019, died late Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 22, at his home in Godfrey after an illness. He was 62.more Penny Weaver | Hearst Illinois|11/27/23 |
Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war — as of Nov. 27 As of Nov. 27, CPJ’s preliminary investigations showed at least 57 journalists and media workers were among the more than 15,000 killed since the war began on Oct. 7 — with over 14,000 Palestinian deathsin Gaza and the West Bank and1,200 deaths in Israel. The deadliest day of the war for journalist deaths was its first day, Oct. 7, with six journalists killed; the second-deadliest day occurred on Nov. 18, with five killed.more Staff | Committee to Protect Journalists|11/27/23 |
Bill Pinella, longtime former Press Democrat sports editor, dies at 76 With a sharp eye for trends, a soft spot for reporters and a fondness for the untold story, Bill Pinella was a guiding force behind the Press Democrat’s sports coverage for nearly two decades.more Lowell Cohn | The Press Democrat|11/21/23 |
Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war — as of Nov. 21 As of Nov. 21, CPJ’s preliminary investigations showed at least 53 journalists and media workers were among the more than 14,000 killed since the war began on Oct. 7 — with over 13,000 Palestinian deathsin Gaza and the West Bank and1,200 deaths in Israel. The second-deadliest day for journalist deaths occurred on Nov. 18, with five killed; the deadliest day of the war was its first day, Oct. 7, with 6 journalists killed.more Staff | Committee to Protect Journalists|11/21/23 |
Terry Taylor, trailblazing Associated Press sports editor, dies at age 71 Terry R. Taylor, who in two trailblazing decades as the first female sports editor of The Associated Press transformed the news agency’s emphasis into multilayered coverage of rigorous reporting, entertaining enterprise and edgy analysis, has died. She was 71.more Ronald Blum | The Associated Press|11/16/23 |
Helen T. Gray, trailblazing former journalist and faith editor at The Kansas City Star, dies at 81 Helen T. Gray, a former faith and religion editor at The Kansas City Star whose journalistic career spanned over four decades, died Saturday, Nov. 11, following an illness.more Glenn E. Rice | The Kansas City Star|11/15/23 |
Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war — as of Nov. 14 As of Nov. 14, CPJ’s preliminary investigations showed at least 42 journalists and media workers were among the more than 12,000 killed since the war began on Oct. 7 — with over 11,000 Palestinian deaths in Gaza and the West Bank and 1,200deaths in Israel.more Staff | Committee to Protect Journalists|11/14/23 |
Mike Shuster, who covered the world for NPR for three decades, has died at 76 Mike Shuster, an award-winning foreign and diplomatic correspondent for National Public Radio, died Monday, Nov. 6. During more than three decades as a reporter and an editor, his work spanned the world and made him an eyewitness to some of the most momentous events in modern history.more Daniel C. Sneider | NPR|11/10/23 |
Philip Meyer, reporter who brought data crunching to newsrooms, dies at 93 Philip Meyer, a journalist who introduced computers to newsrooms in the late 1960s as a powerful tool for mining reams of data, inspiring generations of reporters to fuse social science methods with classic reporting to produce revelatory journalism, died Nov. 4 at his home in Carrboro, N.C. He was 93.more Michael S. Rosenwald | The Washington Post|11/10/23 |
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