New York Times obituary, July 23, 1996

Vermont Royster, a former editor of The Wall Street Journal who won two Pulitzer Prizes and helped to shape his newspaper into the country's leading business daily, died yesterday in a retirement community in Raleigh, N.C., The Journal said. He was 82.

The Journal said Mr. Royster had been in ill health for several years.

(Courtesy of The New York Times)

James Reston, a Giant of Journalism, Dies at 86

By R.W. Apple Jr.

December 7, 1995

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6— James Reston, former columnist, Washington correspondent and executive editor of The New York Times, died tonight at his home here. He was 86.

The cause was cancer, said his son Thomas.

Eugene C. Patterson, Editor and Civil Rights Crusader, Dies at 89

By Robert D. McFadden

January 13, 2013

Eugene C. Patterson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editor of The Atlanta Constitution during the civil rights conflicts of the 1960s and later the managing editor of The Washington Post and editor of The St. Petersburg Times in Florida, died on Saturday in St. Petersburg. He was 89.

The cause was complications from cancer, said George Rahdert, Mr. Patterson’s lawyer and longtime friend, who said he had been sick since last February.

William J. McGill, distinguished psychologist, author and president of Columbia University during the decade of the 1970s, died Sunday, Oct. 19, in La Jolla, Calif. He was 75 years old. He had suffered a severe heart attack last Wednesday and was a patient in John M. and Sally B. Thornton Hospital of the University of California, San Diego. He had been chancellor of UCSD from 1968 to 1970, before joining Columbia, and had been an adjunct professor there again for the past 17 years. 

(Courtesy of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Longtime Journal editor Dick Leonard dies at 92

By Meg Jones

May 18, 2014

Richard H. Leonard always knew he wanted to be a newspaperman — correction, make that editor — ever since he worked on his fifth-grade newspaper back in Ridgewood, N.J.

And he did just that.

In 1967, Leonard was named the sixth editor of The Milwaukee Journal. He served longer than any other editor in the history of the newspaper, with the exception of Lucius W. Nieman, who founded it in 1882.

(Courtesy of The New York Times)

Clayton Kirkpatrick, 89, Editor Who Changed Chicago Tribune

By Thomas J. Lucek

June 23, 2004

Clayton Kirkpatrick, a former editor of The Chicago Tribune who presided over a sweeping transformation of the newspaper's editorial approach, died Saturday at his home in Glen Ellyn, Ill., a suburb of Chicago. He was 89.

The cause was congestive heart failure, The Tribune reported yesterday.

(Courtesy of Brigham Young University)

John Hughes was editor of the Deseret Morning News in Salt Lake City from 1997 to 2006, and returned to BYU as a professor of communications in 2007. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former editor of The Christian Science Monitor.

Hughes has also served as U.S. assistant secretary of state and as assistant secretary-general of the United Nations, and he has chaired presidential and congressional commissions on international broadcasting.