(Courtesy of The New York Times)

Thomas Winship, Ex-Editor of Boston Globe, Dies at 81

By Douglas Martin

March 15, 2002

Thomas Winship, who as editor of The Boston Globe for two decades propelled the newspaper to regional leadership and national stature, in part through tireless coverage of the court-ordered school busing that split the city in the 1970's, died yesterday in Boston. He was 81 and lived in Lincoln, Mass.

He had been under care for lymphoma at Massachusetts General Hospital, said his son Laurence.

(Courtesty of the Pennsylvania Center for the Book)

Gene Roberts, a former executive editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer, achieved national fame for leading the paper to 17 Pulitzer Prizes in an 18-year span. He was widely respected for his high standards in journalism and ability to run a newspaper. A former reporter of his once said, “He’s the ideal editor that a reporter dreams about.”

(Courtesy of The Washington Post)

William Raspberry dies at 76: Washington Post columnist wrote about social issues including race, poverty

By Matt Schudel

July 17, 2012

William Raspberry, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post whose fiercely independent views illuminated conflicts concerning education, poverty, crime and race, and who was one of the first black journalists to gain a wide following in the mainstream press, died July 17 at his home in Washington. He was 76.

(Courtesy of Queens College)

(Courtesy of The Press-Democrat.)

RIVERSIDE: Former P-E publisher and editor Tim Hays dies

Pulitzer Prize winner who led the newspaper for decades won landmark First Amendment cases

From Staff Reports

October 14, 2011

Howard H. "€œTim" Hays Jr., the Harvard-educated lawyer who chose a newspaperman'™s life and led what became The Press-Enterprise into national prominence as a Pulitzer Prize-winning advocate of open government and defender of the First Amendment, died Friday in St. Louis. He was 94.

(Courtesy of the University of Chicago)

Hanna Holborn Gray was president of the University of Chicago from July 1, 1978, through June 30, 1993.

Mrs. Gray is a historian with special interests in the history of humanism,  political and historical thought, and church history and politics in the Renaissance and the Reformation.

"When I think of Oz Elliott, I think of a person who embodies all the qualities of a good citizen—a practical man of high ideals, a courageous man who exercises self-restraint, a worldly man who loves his city." —David Dinkins, Newsweek, 09/27/08

(Article courtesy of The New York Times.)

Osborn Elliott, Father of Newsweek’s Rebirth, Dies at 83

By Michael T. Kaufman

September 28, 2008