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Gary Burgess mostly quits work to start "focusing on his health", i.e. puts himself on the clock, though I would guess it's nothing immediate:

 

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1 hour ago, gcreptile said:

Gary Burgess mostly quits work to start "focusing on his health", i.e. puts himself on the clock, though I would guess it's nothing immediate:

 

Any relation to Guy?

 

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Cal McCrystal, a one-time crime reporter for the Sunday Times and the father of the same-named Irish theatre director and actor, has died.  He was 85.

 

https://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2021/08/10/news/belfast-journalist-who-quizzed-the-kray-twins-on-their-first-kill-dies-at-85-2412712/

 

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Journalist and war correspondent Joseph L. Galloway, whose book about the Battle of Ia Drang in Vietnam was made into a Hollywood film, died Wednesday in a North Carolina hospital.
He was 79 years old:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2021/08/18/joe-galloway-vietnam-war-chronicler-author-dies-79/8188385002/

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Lisa Schaffner, well-respected journalist who worked at WRIC for 22 years, news anchor and marketing director for the United Network for Organ Sharing, dies unexpectedly at the age of 59:
https://richmondvanews.com/former-richmond-information-anchor-lisa-schaffner-has-died-on-the-age-of-59/

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William "Bill" Recktenwald, a "truly legendary reporter", according to his friend and former colleague, SIUC journalism professor Bill Freivogel, dies at the Linda White Hospice House in Evansville, Indiana.

He was 79.
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20210821/renowned-chicago-investigative-reporter-bill-recktenwald-dies-at-79
Recktenwald came to the School of Journalism in 1998 after 20 years of working at the Chicago Tribune.

He was inducted to the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame in 2008.

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James Flanigan, journalist, columnist for the Los Angeles Times, New York Times and other publications, editor and storyteller, dies after a brief illness.
He was 85.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/james-flanigan-longtime-times-business-columnist-dies-at-85/ar-AANBnix?ocid=Peregrine&

During 18 years with Forbes Magazine, he served as bureau chief in Washington, Los Angeles, London and Houston and later in New York as assistant managing editor.

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BBC radio presenter and journalist Lisa Shaw dead at 44 due to vaccine complications

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8 minutes ago, Salmon Mousse said:

BBC radio presenter and journalist Lisa Shaw dead at 44 due to vaccine complications

That was widely reported when it happened in May.

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10 hours ago, drol said:

That was widely reported when it happened in May.

 

My apologies.  Saw the article dated to yesterday and thought it was recent.

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Jerry Wizig, journalist and longtime Houston Chronicle sports reporter from the 60's into the early 2000's, has died.

He also wrote the book "Eat 'Em Up, Cougars: Houston Football", about the history of Cougar sports from the start through the 1977 Cotton Bowl Game versus Maryland.

He was 87 years old:
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/texas-sports-nation/general/article/Jerry-Wizig-longtime-Houston-Chronicle-reporter-16416580.php

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Simon Greenberg (p/w), sports journalist who was also Chelsea's media chief during the Jose Mourinho era (mk 1) has died aged 52, from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. He was Fleet Street's youngest sports editor, and broke the story of George Graham's 'bung', which cost him his Arsenal managership.

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Lisa Laco, a former CBC broadcaster and long-time host of the station's Thunder Bay, Ontario morning show, died August 20th. She was 64. Laco had retired this spring, announcing she had been battling ALS. 

 

https://www.tbnewswatch.com/local-news/former-cbc-broadcaster-and-host-lisa-laco-has-died-at-64-4240700

 

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Lyse Doucet may be worth a punt working in Afghanistan and getting up and close to crowds.

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73-year old Finnish journalist Rauli Virtanen is also in Afghanistan. Notable enough to have an English wikipedia page for covering lots of conflicts starting from the Vietnam War and will get far more attention if he dies in Afghanistan, taking videos of the women's protests, taking pictures where he poses with Taliban fighters and posting them into instagram and other social medias:

https://www.instagram.com/raulivirtanen/

Also has one video of Taliban members debating the protestors...

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2 hours ago, Sean said:

Lyse Doucet may be worth a punt working in Afghanistan and getting up and close to crowds.

 

Yes, ISTR picking her in a past pool for similar reasons.

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2 hours ago, alt obits guy said:

Richard Buckley, a former fashion editor with several high profile magazines including New York Magazine, Women's Wear Daily and Vanity Fair, has died. He was 72.

 

https://www.vogue.com/article/richard-buckley-longtime-fashion-journalist-dies-at-72

Not to forget to mention that he was the husband of legendary designer and fashion icon Tom Ford.

I once had Buckley in the DDP and now get a point the the 40:40 game.

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