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Author and Former reporter for the New York Times Neil Sheehan, known for leaking and writing about the Pentagon Papers in 1971, died at 84 years:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/neil-sheehan-ny-times-reporter-who-obtained-pentagon-papers-and-chronicled-bright-shining-lie-of-vietnam-dies-at-84/2021/01/07/86794382-f943-11e7-ad8c-ecbb62019393_story.html

He went on to win a Pulitzer in 1989.

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Ray Brady, a long-time financial reporter for CBS news, has died. He was 94. Brady, who was both a television and radio reporter, won a 1982 Emmy for a series of reports about unemployed Americans dealing with the recession. He retired in 2000.

 

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ray-brady-longtime-financial-reporter-for-cbs-news-dies-at-94?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

 

 

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"Trailblazing journalist and Fleet Street legend" Bridget Rowe (wikidead at 70 from COVID-19 complications.

Rowe was Editor of The Mirror from 1991 to 1992, The People from 1992 to 1996 and the Sunday Mirror from 1997 to 1998.

Also a panelist on the first series of Loose Women in 1999.

Close friend of Nigel Farage and latterly worked as PR chief to Arron Banks.

 

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As promised....
Journalist David Birtill, former Lancashire Telegraph reporter and sub-editor who became the best known golf correspondent in the North of England, has died in hospital after a lengthy illness.  He was 79.
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13 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:

"Trailblazing journalist and Fleet Street legend" Bridget Rowe (wikidead at 70 from COVID-19 complications.

Rowe was Editor of The Mirror from 1991 to 1992, The People from 1992 to 1996 and the Sunday Mirror from 1997 to 1998.

Also a panelist on the first series of Loose Women in 1999.

Close friend of Nigel Farage and latterly worked as PR chief to Arron Banks.

 

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Final paragraph tells me all I need to know...

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Bob Fisher, world champion sailor but also The Guardian's sailing correspondent from 1958 to 2013, has died aged 85.

 

He covered 16 America's Cups, and was accredited to cover the Tokyo Olympics.

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NFL media journalist and possible longlister Chris Wesseling has died from cancer

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Paul Malone, a top Australian sportswriter who covered three Olympics, countless Australian Opens in tennis and the Rugby World Cup in 2003, has died. He was 59.  Nicknamed 'Scobie', Malone's life had changed forever 19 months ago, when a fall in a hospital left him a quadriplegic.  The specifics of that accident aren't mentioned in the obit below.

 

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/paul-malone-tribute-sports-journalism-mourns-top-queensland-reporter/news-story/646a9961578a218a1847be6930f78850

 

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Former Evening Times journalist Ally McLaws reveals his terminal lung cancer has spread to his brain. :skull:

 

Unique DDP pick this year for someone or other!

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Frank Orr, an iconic sportswriter for the Toronto Star, has died. He was 84. Orr - no relation to Bobby Orr - was a Hockey Hall of Fame inductee in the media category and an award-winning journalist for the newspaper for four decades.

 

https://www.thephwa.com/2021/02/13/phwa-mourns-the-passing-of-toronto-star-titan-frank-orr/

 

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Martin Johnson, sports journalist (predominantly cricket), Leicester Mercury, Independent, Telegraph & Sunday Times, has died following a long illness, aged 71. Known more for his turn of phrase than his newsgathering, he was ironically nicknamed 'scoop' and once flew to Las Vegas to cover a Lennox Lewis fight that was taking place in New York.

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Martin Woollacott, of the Guardian, former foreign correspondent and foreign editor, has died aged 81, lung cancer. He won the International Reporter of The Year award from the BPA, for his coverage of the North Vietnamese taking of Saigon in 1975.

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On 07/04/2019 at 20:17, Joey Russ said:

TV critic Sarah Hughes talks about Games of Thrones and her stage 4 breast cancer diagnosis...

Lots of Twitterers reporting the death of Sarah Hughes, but can't see anything newsy anywhere that confirms it. Here latest LoD episode recap is in today's paper.

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3 minutes ago, time said:

Lots of Twitterers reporting the death of Sarah Hughes, but can't see anything newsy anywhere that confirms it. Here latest LoD episode recap is in today's paper.

Shocking, she seemed fine, at least on twitter, but yeah, there was a reason I picked her in the DDP.

An ominous article in November, a hospitalisation in February. She seemed to have recovered though.

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