gcreptile 10,964 Posted June 7, 2015 BBC journalist Nick Robinson has a rare form of lung cancer: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/11443706/Nick-Robinsons-cancer-Timing-lousy-prognosis-good.html But apparently, the prognosis is good. Some people on twitter however think that the cancer is "karma" for his coverage of the Scottish independence vote: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11443421/Independence-activists-abuse-Nick-Robinson-after-his-tumour-operation-is-revealed.html Nick Robinson has successful surgery, will start chemotherapy now: http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/30/bbc-nick-robinson-successful-op-lung-tumour Nick Robinson's cancer is "worse than feared", though the prognosis is still "good": http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3113745/BBC-star-Nick-Robinson-tells-courageous-efforts-return-work-election-admits-battle-not-over.html 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BuriedInCarolina 46 Posted June 9, 2015 "HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR" The New York Post headline author Vincent Musetto died on Tuesday in the Bronx. He was 74. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/10/business/media/vincent-musetto-74-author-of-headless-headline-of-ageless-fame.html 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted June 15, 2015 John Carroll, former editor of LA Times and Baltimore Sun, dead at 73. SC http://mashable.com/2015/06/14/john-carroll-la-times-dies/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,571 Posted June 15, 2015 John Carroll, former editor of LA Times and Baltimore Sun, dead at 73. SC http://mashable.com/2015/06/14/john-carroll-la-times-dies/ Cause of death is being described as CJD. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,571 Posted June 18, 2015 BBC/ITN journalist Sue Lloyd-Roberts is suffering from a rare blood cancer and needs a cell transplant Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,515 Posted June 18, 2015 BBC/ITN journalist Sue Lloyd-Roberts is suffering from a rare blood cancer and needs a cell transplant Was hoping that news would bubble under most people's radars but the Mail's put a stop to that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted June 25, 2015 Veteran journalist, media consultant and former Hongkong Standard executive editor Henry Parwani died on June 24, 2015. He was 67. SC http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=11&art_id=158411&sid=44724357&con_type=1&d_str=20150625 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,029 Posted June 28, 2015 Virginia Waite, journalist and who appeared with Cliff Michelmore (yes!) on the BBC's Holiday programme in the late 1960s, 78. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11702140/Virginia-Waite-journalist-obituary.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,964 Posted July 1, 2015 Ben Wattenberg, a political pundit who was a Democrat and a Neoconservative (Neoconservatism was indeed born in the Democratic Party) and urged his party to move to the elusive political center, is dead at 81: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/30/us/ben-wattenberg-author-and-commentator-dies-at-81.html?_r=0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mijkediablo 79 Posted July 4, 2015 Akshay Singh, an Indian journalist who was covering the Vyapam scam, dies mysteriously. http://www.thenewsminute.com/article/journalist-covering-vyapam-scam-drops-dead-mysteriously-31851 Singh's death comes after just a week after Narendra Singh Tomar, an accused in the Vyapam scam, died in the Indore jail after complaining of chest pain. At least 25 accused and witnessed linked to the case have died under mysterious circumstances so far. Activist Anand Rai, the principal whistleblower in the scam, told The News Minute that the number of deaths of people linked to the scam under suspicious circumstances is 45. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mijkediablo 79 Posted July 5, 2015 BBC/ITN journalist Sue Lloyd-Roberts is suffering from a rare blood cancer and needs a cell transplant She has now found a stem cell donor. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-33402358 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,964 Posted July 6, 2015 BBC journalist Nick Robinson has a rare form of lung cancer: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/11443706/Nick-Robinsons-cancer-Timing-lousy-prognosis-good.html But apparently, the prognosis is good. Some people on twitter however think that the cancer is "karma" for his coverage of the Scottish independence vote: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11443421/Independence-activists-abuse-Nick-Robinson-after-his-tumour-operation-is-revealed.html Nick Robinson has successful surgery, will start chemotherapy now: http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/30/bbc-nick-robinson-successful-op-lung-tumour Nick Robinson's cancer is "worse than feared", though the prognosis is still "good": http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3113745/BBC-star-Nick-Robinson-tells-courageous-efforts-return-work-election-admits-battle-not-over.html Nick Robinson is likely to step down: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/bbc/11719338/BBC-lining-up-female-political-editor-to-replace-Nick-Robinson.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,029 Posted July 8, 2015 Andrew Alexander, former City Editor and columnist for the Daily Mail, said to be the Queen Mother's favourite columnist, 80. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3152930/The-man-saw-euro-crisis-coming-Mail-s-ex-City-editor-Andrew-Alexander-dies-80.html Friend of Enoch Powell too, so that will be one reunion party in the front row seats in Hell, then. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adrian0719 220 Posted July 9, 2015 Tom Brokaw now talking about being in the "mortality zone". Probably gonna hold out for a few more years, but a good one to keep on file. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mijkediablo 79 Posted July 9, 2015 Dexter Eure, first black columnist at the Boston Globe, dead at 91. http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/07/08/dexter-eure-former-globe-executive-was-paper-first-black-columnist/5ZJH1g3yk6lAoASqq5DbHI/story.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,029 Posted July 10, 2015 Endell Laird, former editor of the Daily Record/Sunday Mail, 81. http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2015/jul/10/endell-laird-former-daily-record-and-sunday-mail-editor-dies-aged-81 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mijkediablo 79 Posted July 15, 2015 Marlene Sanders, one of America's first female television journalists and the first network newswoman to report from Vietnam, dead at 84. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pioneering-tv-journalist-marlene-sanders-dead-at-84/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,645 Posted July 17, 2015 Hacker group known as Anonymous have made a threat to of Katie Hopkins: specifically, she has to publicly apologise to those she has hurt with her various rantings or they will make sure we all know where she lives and how to send her raging personal emails. All together now: C'mon Anonymous!! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,645 Posted July 18, 2015 Re Ms Hopkins, Jon Ronson in today's Guardian magazine also met her and conducted a kind of cat and mouse interview in which she kept changing her line of argument. All of which means it's hard to know what credibility to give the claim she mades that her epilepsy is so severe she fears she may only have a few more years to live. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,964 Posted July 27, 2015 Ingrid Sischy, feminist writer and critic at the Vanity Fair and The New Yorker has died of breast cancer at 63: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/25/business/media/ingrid-sischy-doyenne-of-art-and-fashion-dies-at-63.html?_r=0 Apparently, she wrote gossip articles for intellectuals and knew everyone from Elton John to Joseph Beuys. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BuriedInCarolina 46 Posted July 28, 2015 Don Oberdorfer, 84, Top Diplomatic Reporter for Washington Post, Dies - might have been an "ace foreign policy writer" but he's an ace in the hole now! http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/29/business/media/don-oberdorfer-is-dead-at-84-former-washington-post-diplomatic-correspondent.html? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,029 Posted July 30, 2015 Jack Warden (no, not the actor), former political editor of The Glasgow Herald, 87. http://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/obituaries/13507272.Jack_Warden/ Broke the story of Princess Margaret's divorce and (along with others) broke the story regarding Michael Fagan's appearance in the Queen's apartments. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,515 Posted August 14, 2015 Elizabeth Scalia, American catholic journalist with a few Guardian bylines to her name and kind of a stateside version of my DDP pick Catherine Wybourne, is in a pretty bad state of affairs right now. Would make it 50/50 that she gets a valid obit though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,645 Posted August 14, 2015 We should probably keep tabs in the incendiary Katie Hopkins; her rant in The Sun today praises the airlines that charge by weight and therefore penalise fatties. She's advocating that as standard policy for all airlines. That'll piss off a few more people, eh? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
themaninblack 2,112 Posted August 14, 2015 We should probably keep tabs in the incendiary Katie Hopkins; her rant in The Sun today praises the airlines that charge by weight and therefore penalise fatties. She's advocating that as standard policy for all airlines. That'll piss off a few more people, eh? She can run, they won't be able to keep up... 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
