NYT journalist Thomas Morgan, 56

Posted: Friday, December 28th, 2007 11:45 pm

Thomas Morgan III, 56, a former reporter and editor at the New York Times, died Monday of AIDS complications.

According to an obituary in the Times, Morgan’s accomplishments were great: He served as the first openly gay president of the National Association of Black Journalists from 1989 to 1991, received a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University in 1990, and was inducted into the hall of fame of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association in 2005. … Read full obituary