Journalists

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You have just descended to her level.

[gcreptile 11,134]

Welsh BBC journalist Sian Pari Huws dies of cancer at 55:

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-34944053

[Spade_Cooley 9,641]

Another DQSP 2016 guarantee, former Daily Express news editor Kingsley Squire, fails to make it to the start line. Dead at 78.

[gcreptile 11,134]

The London Times chief opera critic from 1992-2002, Rodney Milnes has died at 79:

 

http://slippedisc.com/2015/12/a-much-loved-times-critic-has-died/

 

He had a long illness... sounds like he could have been on DQSP as well...

[YoungWillz 21,294]

Reports that Ian Bell, journalist and columnist with The Herald and Sunday Herald has died. He was 59. https://twitter.com/euanmccolm/status/675106798215569414 and https://twitter.com/davidtorrance/status/675107561612423168

 

Edit: Herald Obit: http://m.heraldscotland.com/news/14138709.Ian_Bell__award_winning_Herald_columnist__dies_at_age_of_59/

 

[gcreptile 11,134]

Jimmy Walker, Northern Irish motorcycle journalist, has died after a long illness at 78:

 

http://www.newsletter.co.uk/sport/motorcycling-news/motorcycling-journalist-jimmy-walker-has-died-1-7118078

[Sir Creep 7,082]

Harold W. Andersen, the former publisher of Nebraska’s largest daily newspaper and first American to be president of the International Federation of Newspaper Publishers, has died. He was 92.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/local/obituaries/former-omaha-world-herald-publisher-harold-andersen-dies/2015/12/18/392c7268-a5ab-11e5-8318-bd8caed8c588_story.html

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Christopher Martin Jenkins followed Alan Lee as The Times cricket corespondent, now Lee follows CMJ, into the 'beyond'.

 

http://www.racingpost.com/news/horse-racing/cheltenham-the-times-racing-correspondent-alan-lee-dies-aged-61/2007148/#newsArchiveTabs=last7DaysNews

[Spade_Cooley 9,641]

Nigel Buxton, dead at the age of 91. Qualifies for this thread via being a major travel writer for 30 years (editing the Sunday Telegraph's travel section), but for anyone between the age of 30 and 45 is much better known as the Adam and Joe Show's "BaaadDad".

 

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Liam Clarke, formerly the Northern Ireland editor for the Sunday Times, has died only nine days after he was diagnosed with cancer.

[YoungWillz 21,294]

Death Notice for William Weyland Turner, former FBI agent, who has died at 88 on 26 December 2015. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?pid=177103326

 

Worked for Hoover for 10 years, left because of the anti-Communist agenda pursued by Hoover and became a journalist. Investigated the assassination of JFK and became convinced it was a conspiracy. Also worked with Jim Garrison on the prosecution of Clay Shaw in connection with the assassination. Author of books on this and also Robert Kennedy's assassination.

[Sir Creep 7,082]

Timothy Gilson Foote, editor, author, former Time-Life foreign correspondent and longtime Aquinnah and Chilmark seasonal resident, died Dec. 21 in Beaverkill, N.Y. He was 89 and recently had fallen ill with mesothelioma, acquired when he was a Naval Reserve radio operator on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific in World War II.

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http://vineyardgazette.com/obituaries/2016/01/20/timothy-foote-foreign-correspondent-time-life-dies-89

[YoungWillz 21,294]

Arthur Binnie, journalist who scooped the discovery of the missing Stone of Destiny, dies at 89. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-35493518

[Sir Creep 7,082]

Acel Moore, 75, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Philadelphia Inquirer reporter, editor, and columnist who changed the way the newspaper and others cover the black community while encouraging young people from minority backgrounds to enter and succeed in the profession he loved, died unexpectedly at his Wyncote home Friday evening.

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http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20160214_Longtime_Inquirer_editor_Acel_Moore_dies.html#2e178wCU1SmRLOHS.99

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Craig Windham, NPR Newscaster, Dies

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/29/468559049/craig-windham-npr-newscaster-dies?

[YoungWillz 21,294]

Victoria Derbyshire completes chemotherapy: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35727236

[Sir Creep 7,082]

Formula One journalist and former Autoweek contributor Alan Henry has died after a long illness at the age of 68. Henry worked for several European publications during his career, including Barclay's International, Motoring News, Autocar and The Guardian. He covered Formula One for four decades and attended as estimated 650 F1 races.

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[Sir Creep 7,082]

Lawrence Van Gelder, who worked in the newsrooms of five New York City newspapers over 55 years, most of them as a critic, columnist and editor at The New York Times, died on Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 83. The cause was leiomyosarcoma, a rare cancer.

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[Sir Creep 7,082]

Peggy Girshman, an Emmy Award-winning health-care journalist who co-founded the Washington-based news service Kaiser Health News in 2008 and helped build the nonprofit into a media organization of national scope, died March 14 at her home in Silver Spring, Md. She was 61. The cause was complications from amyloidosis, a condition of abnormal protein production and deposition in organs.

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[Sir Creep 7,082]

Man, lots of NPR folks this year in't?

Aziz Alwan, a veteran Iraqi journalist who covered the Iraq war for The Washington Post and National Public Radio and served as a resourceful in-country guide to international reporters, died March 29 in Baghdad. He was 57.

Mr. Alwan died after he was taken to a Baghdad hospital for treatment of stomach problems, his family said.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/world/aziz-alwan-a-veteran-iraqi-journalist-dies-at-57/2016/03/31/656bb40e-f760-11e5-a3ce-f06b5ba21f33_story.html

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Ray Fitzwalter, BAFTA winning editor of World in Action, has died.

 

For those too young to remember, World in Action was a current affairs show, back when ITV had programmes worth watching.

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Obscene, radical conservative US pundit Erick Erickson had pulmonary embolism and "should be dead", but isn't:

 

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/erick-erickson-health-scare

[Sir Creep 7,082]

Obscene, radical conservative US pundit Erick Erickson had pulmonary embolism and "should be dead", but isn't:

 

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/erick-erickson-health-scare

He made the long list for Gris Gris team but he simply wasn't old enough to crack the roster. No one under 60 made the team, and only a couple under 70 like Sirhan Sirhan for obvious reasons.

SirC

[drol 12,231]

Italian journalist Emiiano Liuzzi died on April 6th aged 46 and journalist Stefano di Michele died on 16th April aged 56. 6 plus 10 and 46 plus 10, amazing. Two Communist journalists less, so these are not sad demises.

[drol 12,231]

Italian journalist Emiiano Liuzzi died on April 6th aged 46 and journalist Stefano di Michele died on 16th April aged 56. 6 plus 10 and 46 plus 10, amazing. Two Communist journalists less, so these are not sad demises.

for me of course.