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Ina Jaffe, award-winning NPR journalist died last month at 75:

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/01/nx-s1-4288918/remembering-the-life-and-work-of-npr-correspondent-ina-jaffe

 

Crossing her from my longlist.... She had been mentioned on this forum once before as her cancer was known.

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Wonder what could have caused a 32-year-old journalist on holiday to have a cardiac arrest

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On 26/09/2022 at 22:49, Gooseberry Crumble said:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/19926340/mammogram-nhs-breast-cancer-deidre-saunders/

 

Agony aunt Deirdre Sanders who works for The Sun and ITVs This Morning diagnosed  with  breast cancer. 

Her cancer has returned. 

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/30780953/agony-aunt-deidre-sanders-breast-cancer-returned-this-morning/

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Not mentioned anywhere

 

Cid Moreira (Wiki), Brazilian journalist and TV anchor, active since 1947 dead at 97

 

One of the most famous figures in Brazil about journalism

 

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Guardian obit for James Cox (wiki), aged 83.

 

Amongst many other things:

 

*presenter of The World This Weekend on Radio 4

*Political Editor of Newsnight during the 1990s

*BBC Scotland’s political editor in the late 70s/early 80s during the rise of the SNP

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On 29/10/2020 at 13:02, YoungWillz said:

Toodle-oo the noo as Brian Taylor, BBC Scotland's political correspondent since I was a lad, retires.

 

Huge, rough and breathless on his last report from Holyrood. Keep him in your sights.


Reminded of Brian Taylor today from watching the Salmond obituaries on telly, and seeing a brief clip of a Salmond interview he did in the 2010s .

He wrote his latest column just yesterday but he seems to be seldom spotted in public now. Turns 70 in January (he was born just 9 days after Salmond).

Can see him dying in the next couple of years.

Like Salmond, his omission from any teams in the DDP is surprising.

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On 09/08/2023 at 15:57, YoungWillz said:

BBC Scotland political editor Glenn Campbell to have surgery for a brain tumour: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-66453430


Not sure if we revisited this but Glenn Campbell stopped treatment for his cancer in May.

He's acknowledged that the brain cancer will eventually kill him, but he "hopes" he has many years yet.

I wouldn't suggest picking him for 2025, but as he's a big name in Scottish broadcasting I think we should prompt ourselves to revisit him in a year or two from now.

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Former Kerrang editor, and contributor to most places that write about music, James McMahon dead at 44. Very much a "troubled" individual but looks like it was cancer that took him out rather than his own hand.

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BBC radio presenter and journalist Howard Hughes (wikidead.

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7 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:

BBC radio presenter and journalist Howard Hughes (wikidead.

 

 

My bad, just posted this in deaths of 2024 because I didn't think to look here. More a presenter than journalist, though he'd found a recent niche in paranormal content where the dividing line between journalism and entertainment is non-existent.

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On 09/11/2024 at 10:45, Ulitzer95 said:

Not sure if we revisited this but Glenn Campbell stopped treatment for his cancer in May.

He's acknowledged that the brain cancer will eventually kill him, but he "hopes" he has many years yet.

I wouldn't suggest picking him for 2025, but as he's a big name in Scottish broadcasting I think we should prompt ourselves to revisit him in a year or two from now.

 

Glenn Campbell thinks he'll reach his 50th birthday in February 2026. He even mentions wanting to climb every Munro in Scotland by 2028. However, the video below shows him having a seizure (which he could still talk through) on Meall nan Tarmachan. He's friends with Theo Burrell too.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy9xm239lgo

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3 minutes ago, Clorox Bleachman said:

 

Glenn Campbell thinks he'll reach his 50th birthday in February 2026. He even mentions wanting to climb every Munro in Scotland by 2028. However, the video below shows him having a seizure (which he could still talk through) on Meall nan Tarmachan. He's friends with Theo Burrell too.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy9xm239lgo


I reckon he’s a very good punt for 2026.

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26 minutes ago, Clorox Bleachman said:

 

Glenn Campbell thinks he'll reach his 50th birthday in February 2026. He even mentions wanting to climb every Munro in Scotland by 2028. However, the video below shows him having a seizure (which he could still talk through) on Meall nan Tarmachan. He's friends with Theo Burrell too.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy9xm239lgo

The article says his tumor is stable, so I think seeing February is a realistic punt. It's a more treatable kind of brain tumor as well, which has almost certainly helped him survive as long as he has. Which makes me think he may see 2026 without as much trouble as we think, especially if his drugs (and medical care) are working.

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On 15/11/2024 at 19:44, Spade_Cooley said:

Former Kerrang editor, and contributor to most places that write about music, James McMahon dead at 44. Very much a "troubled" individual but looks like it was cancer that took him out rather than his own hand.


James McMahon gets a Guardian obit.

Cause of death confirmed as soft tissue sarcoma, a rare form of cancer.

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Popular meteorologist for the Columbus NBC channel Bob Nunnally, dies from cancer at 68:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14173991/tv-reporter-dies-aged-68-months-declaring-cancer-free.html

 

Just a few months ago, he had been declared cancer-free from pancreatic cancer.

 

Next time, I guess I'll just pick the local TV guy with pancreatic cancer and hope for that Daily Mail obit... whenever there will be another guy.

But then again, Nunnally survived it for two years.

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Peter Fraenkel (wiki), German-born British journalist and writer, dead at 98.

As reported by his son, Mark, on Facebook.

Fled the Nazis for Northern Rhodesia in 1939, then became the European controller for the BBC. Fascinating life – would make a great obit once the broadsheets pick up on his demise.

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