(Courtesy of The New York Times)

Robert J. Donovan, 90, the Author of 'PT-109'

By Anthony Ramirez

August 10, 2003

Robert J. Donovan, a ''shoe leather'' newspaper reporter without a college education who became a Washington correspondent, best-selling author and presidential historian, died on Friday at Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg, Fla. A longtime resident of Washington, he moved to Florida in 2001. He was 90.

(Courtesy of the University of Wisconsin)

A native of Plainview, TX, Price Day (1907-1978) was graduated from Princeton University in 1928. Following a variegated career as a freelance cartoonist and writer of science fiction & children's stories (most notably the young adult novel Well, About the Penguin [Simon & Schuster, 1939]) and journeyman reporter with the Fort Lauderdale News, he briefly served as city editor of the Fort Lauderdale Times in 1942.

John Cowles Jr., 82, Dies; Led Minneapolis Newspapers

by Bruce Weber, March 19, 2012, The New York Times

John Cowles Jr., a Minneapolis newspaper executive and philanthropist whose support for arts, sports and entertainment helped elevate the Twin Cities' cultural community to national prominence, died on Saturday at home in Minneapolis. He was 82.

The cause was lung cancer, his son Jay said.

Wallace Carroll, Publisher And Editor, Is Dead at 95

Wallace Carroll, a retired newspaper editor and publisher who campaigned against the Vietnam War and led his paper to a Pulitzer Prize for environmental reporting, died on Sunday in a nursing home in Winston-Salem, N.C. He was 95.

(Courtesy of The New York Times)

Ben Bradlee’s Charmed, Charming Life

By David Carr

October 22, 2014

Civilians, people who don’t think the toppling of a sitting American president with newspaper articles is one of humankind’s lasting achievements, will read encomiums to Ben Bradlee like this one and wonder: What’s the big deal?