the_engineer 1,415 Posted October 2, 2019 Peter Sissons set a high standard that hasn't been reached since he retired. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Weebl 216 Posted October 3, 2019 21 hours ago, the_engineer said: Peter Sissons set a high standard that hasn't been reached since he retired. No other newsreaders in the UK since have been part lion, that's why Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,515 Posted October 8, 2019 The Guardian decide to give us brief hope by writing an obituary for Jeremy Hunt - the former Observer production editor. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted October 8, 2019 1 hour ago, Spade_Cooley said: The Guardian decide to give us brief hope by writing an obituary for Jeremy Hunt - the former Observer production editor. Hope you say? I need them to write one for Pauline Hunt. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Etushispushingupdaisies 136 Posted October 12, 2019 https://www.newsday.com/amp/entertainment/tv/carol-silva-news-12-cancer-1.37397729. Carol Silva has stage 4 cancer. Another possible DDP or Deathrace pick. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted October 12, 2019 21 minutes ago, Etushispushingupdaisies said: https://www.newsday.com/amp/entertainment/tv/carol-silva-news-12-cancer-1.37397729. Carol Silva has stage 4 cancer. Another possible DDP or Deathrace pick. Maybe so, but maybe not immediately: "She received some good news Thursday — the tumors in her brain had disappeared, although "we won't know [for certain] until I go in for an MRI in a couple of weeks." Silva has been off the air the past three weeks but says she hopes to rejoin her broadcast shortly." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted October 14, 2019 Hugh McDiarmid, a political reporter and columnist for more than 20 years at the Detroit Free Press, has died. He was 84 years old. McDiarmid covered politics in Michigan from 1975 until he retired in 2001. The Free Press says he died Saturday from complications of Alzheimer's disease. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,966 Posted October 15, 2019 Longtime msnbc journalist Chris Matthews has prostate cancer, but to repeat what I said re: Mitt Romney, a lot of old men have it: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/465838-msnbcs-chris-matthews-recovering-from-prostate-cancer-surgery Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted October 23, 2019 Kathryn Johnson, a trailblazing reporter for The Associated Press whose intrepid coverage of the civil rights movement and other major stories led to a string of legendary scoops, died Wednesday. She was 93. Her niece, Rebecca Winters, said Johnson died Wednesday morning in Atlanta. Johnson was the only journalist allowed inside Martin Luther King Jr.’s home the day he was assassinated. When Gov. George Wallace blocked black students from entering the University of Alabama, she sneaked in to cover his confrontation with federal officials. She scored exclusive interviews with 2nd Lt. William L. Calley Jr. before he was convicted of his role in the My Lai massacre. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,645 Posted October 24, 2019 David Mertens - Sun night editor and hardcore reporting stalwart of many years, dead at 73 - (in)famous for his signing off line in the office: "Another great day for British journalism" https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10184595/david-mertens-sun-editor-died/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted October 27, 2019 Ray Jenkins, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who once worked as a special assistant for press affairs in President Jimmy Carter's administration, has died. He was 89. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/pulitzer-prize-winning-journalist-ray-jenkins-dies-89-66555067?cid=social_twitter_wnt Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted October 29, 2019 posted already. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DevonDeathTrip 2,358 Posted October 29, 2019 Times journalist James Gillespie, according to Twitter. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,583 Posted November 1, 2019 Frank Giles, who was Editor of the Sunday Times (1981–1983) and before that, Deputy Editor (1967–1981) has died aged 100. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CoffinLodger 1,248 Posted November 1, 2019 I was just wondering if I should post that in the famous centenarian thread or this one but I see I'm too late ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
roaming_comrade 471 Posted November 2, 2019 15 hours ago, CoffinLodger said: I was just wondering if I should post that in the famous centenarian thread or this one but I see I'm too late ! One is always too late on this platform. If I were famous, deathlist.net would know about my death before I did. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,033 Posted November 3, 2019 On 29/10/2019 at 23:17, DevonDeathTrip said: Times journalist James Gillespie, according to Twitter. James Gillespie according to the Daily Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7643671/Former-Mail-Sunday-journalist-Jim-Gillepsie-dies-age-61.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,966 Posted November 9, 2019 Tazeen Ahmad, award-winning BBC journalist dead at 48 from cancer: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-50348504 Sounds like it could have been known to some of us, I was not aware. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dodrade 94 Posted November 10, 2019 12 hours ago, gcreptile said: Tazeen Ahmad, award-winning BBC journalist dead at 48 from cancer: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-50348504 Sounds like it could have been known to some of us, I was not aware. Very sad, I think she has a young family too as I remember her reporting on election night 2005 while heavily pregnant. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,033 Posted November 20, 2019 Richard Lindley, BBC and ITN correspondent obituary: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/11/19/richard-lindley-dashing-television-reporter-inquisitor-itn-bbc/ Can only find a clipped clip of his Panorama interview with John Nott on the Falklands in 1982. However, in these feverish times of election, here is the News at Ten reporting on the Blair landslide of 1997. Lindley voiceovers the Lib-Dem gains about 11 minutes? in. Worth watching for THE Portillo moment and Chris Leslie's victory over Sir Marcus Fox - the political equivalent of your grandad getting a kicking from a teenager. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXU2NCde3KI Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,515 Posted November 21, 2019 On 01/11/2019 at 21:03, Ulitzer95 said: Frank Giles, who was Editor of the Sunday Times (1981–1983) and before that, Deputy Editor (1967–1981) has died aged 100. Nice tribute from Popbitch: Quote Popbitch wasn’t the first to start peeking at celebrity penises. All we’ve been doing is carrying a flame that was passed down from our forebears, including the recently deceased Frank Giles: former editor of the Sunday Times and one of the UK’s trailblazing cockwatchers. Among the celebrity schlongs he managed to spot in his career, Giles counts some of the greats. He got a glimpse of the Duke Of Windsor, Edward VIII, in the shower and noticed that he was sporting a full Hollywood (“[hairless] even in places where one would most expect it to be”). And he once got chatting to Ernest Bevin at the urinal, who famously said to him, mid-flow “This is it, Giles. The socialist dream. The means of production, in the hands of the people.” 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,438 Posted November 22, 2019 On 20/04/2019 at 22:47, msc said: A reminder that my 2014 DDP survivor, journalist Chris Moncrieff, is soon to be 88 and still with us. Highly obitable when he goes, and looked on his last legs after a 60 year career of heavy drinking back then. Although he still gives talks and semi-regular articles for the Northern Echo. True story about him, oft retold. He was chasing a story down in N Ireland in the early 80s, by which I mean boozing. The masked men come into the pub and announce the pub has a bomb set to go off in half an hour. Chris turns round and the entire pub has just emptied, but he thought: "Oh well, if the pubs exploding in 30 minutes, that's plenty of time for one more pint of Guinness." Asked later how he felt, he said "I was pissed off. The bomb didn't go off for another hour, there'd been time for two pints had I known!" The unflappable Chris Moncrieff has died aged 88. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,515 Posted December 5, 2019 For those of you who were thinking of chancing your arm on New York Times' cancer columnist Josie Rubio, no need: she's died aged 42. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,337 Posted December 9, 2019 https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/dec/09/alex-duval-smith-former-guardian-journalist-dies-at-55 Former Guardian journalist Alex Duval Smith has died aged 55. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HDS 234 Posted December 25, 2019 Edward Aschoff, up and coming college football reporter with ESPN, dead after a battle with pneumonia according to colleagues. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
