R. W. Apple Jr., who in more than 40 years as a correspondent and editor at The New York Times wrote about war and revolution, politics and government, food and drink, and the revenge of living well from more than 100 countries, died early this morning in Washington. He was 71. … Read full obituary
Oriana Fallaci, a dissecting interviewer of the powerful and an iconoclastic journalist turned icon herself, who in recent years wrote angrily about the threat of Islam, died today in her home city of Florence, the hospital reported. She was 77. … Read full obituary
Peter Greenough, a journalist and the husband of opera soprano Beverly Sills for nearly a half-century, has died, Sills’ manager said Thursday. He was 89. … Read full obituary
George Crile III, an award-winning CBS News journalist and best-selling author, died Monday. Crile, who lived in New York City, suffered from pancreatic cancer diagnosed in November 2005. He was 61. … Read full obituary
Veteran Nine Network reporter Richard Carleton has died after suffering a suspected heart attack at Tasmania’s Beaconsfield gold mine this afternoon.
Carleton collapsed shortly after asking a question at a news conference about 1pm. Members of the media began performing chest compressions as an ambulance crew arrived. … Read full obituary
Bill Beutel, the longtime television news anchor and host of the show that became ABC’s “Good Morning America,” has died, the network announced. He was 75. … Read full obituary
Washington (AP) — Veteran New York Times journalist David E. Rosenbaum, 63, died Sunday evening from injuries suffered in a street robbery while walking near his home two nights earlier, police said. … Read full obituary
Jack Anderson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning muckraking columnist who struck fear into the hearts of corrupt or secretive politicians, inspiring Nixon operatives to plot his murder, died Saturday. He was 83. … Read full obituary
ABC News Anchor Peter Jennings died today at his home in New York City. He was 67. On April 5, Jennings announced he had been diagnosed with lung cancer. … Read full obituary
(Cocoa, Florida) Jack Nichols, one of the pioneers of gay liberation and a prolific writer, died early Monday in hospital after a long illness. He was 67.
In 1961, Nichols along with Frank Kameny, founded the Mattachine Society of Washington — one of the earliest groups to fight for gay rights in America. … Read full obituary
Longtime Boston political columnist David Nyhan died while shoveling snow in front of his home in Brookline yesterday, friends said. … Read full obituary
Side note: Anyone out there running a “Suspicious Circumstances” Dead Pool? If you know anything about Gary Webb and his work, this is not a guy you’d expect to off himself. And while it could be a typo, note the mention of “gunshot wounds” (plural). Very strange indeed…
Gary Webb, a prize-winning investigative journalist whose star-crossed career was capped with a controversial newspaper series linking the CIA to the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles, died Friday of self-inflicted gunshot wounds, officials said. … Read full story
Veteran news anchor David Brinkley has died at his home in Houston, in the U.S. state of Texas. He was 82-years-old. … Read full obituary
David Bloom, an NBC News correspondent traveling with the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Division outside Baghdad, died Sunday, NBC announced. Bloom, a 39-year-old husband and father of three, died of an apparent pulmonary embolism, the company said. … Read full obituary
Kenneth Auchincloss, an editor at Newsweek who oversaw the magazine’s coverage of the past five US presidential elections, has died at the age of 65. … Read full obituary
One of the “most brilliant journalists and columnists” of our time, The Post’s Neal Travis died peacefully in his sleep today.
The legendary 62-year-old gossip writer had been battling cancer for several months.
Travis, a brash, swashbuckling New Zealand import, was the original editor of The Post’s famed Page Six.
His journalism career spanned more than four decades and won him legions of fans across the globe.
Among them was News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch. Travis — a high-school dropout — wound up becoming one of Murdoch’s most loyal employees, working for him a total of 22 years. …
When Murdoch acquired the New York Post in 1977, Travis became the first editor of Page Six. …
His last column ran Monday, July 29. … Read full obituary
David Graves, a senior reporter with The Daily Telegraph, has died while diving in the Bahamas.
Graves, 50, whose career in journalism spanned crises from the Falklands war to the War on Terrorism, was with a diving party off the island of Andros.
The group was on a trip looking at “blue holes” — underwater geological formations. On Monday afternoon, after the main dive of the day, the party went into the water for a second time on a “shark watch” in depths of about 60ft. Graves disappeared as the party climbed back into the boat.
The dive masters went back into the water to search for Graves — a married father of two sons — but by the time they reached him he appeared to be unconscious. … Read full obituary
Albin Krebs, a reporter for The New York Times who specialized in writing obituaries of prominent artists, performers and politicians, died on Friday at his home in Key West, Fla. He was 73.
The cause was cancer, Robert Krebs, his nephew, said.
His obituary subjects ranged from the singing cowboy Gene Autry to the writer Truman Capote and the food authority James Beard. One of the last and most prominent of his advance obituaries to appear was that of the writer Eudora Welty, a fellow Mississippian, who died last year. More recently, his obituary of the writer Walter Lord appeared May 21.
Albin Joseph Krebs was born in Pascagoula, Miss., on March 5, 1929. … Read full obituary
Bill Beardemphl, founder of one of San Francisco’s earliest gay rights organizations, has died at the age of 75. … Read full obituary
Howard K. Smith, who was one of radio and television’s most outspoken and familiar voices in a long and often contentious career as an anchorman, news analyst and war correspondent, died Friday evening at his home in Bethesda, Md. He was 87. … Read full obituary
Bob Stevens, whose elegant and good-natured prose tickled The Chronicle’s sports pages for nearly 50 years — and took him to the Baseball Hall of Fame — died yesterday. He was 85. … Read full obituary
Barbara Olson, a conservative commentator and attorney, alerted her husband, Solicitor General Ted Olson, that the plane she was on was being hijacked Tuesday morning, Ted Olson told CNN. … Read full story
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