(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 New York Times)

Claude Sitton, 89, Acclaimed Civil Rights Reporter, Dies

By Dennis Hevesi

March 10, 2015

Claude Sitton, a son of the South whose unwavering coverage of the civil rights movement for The New York Times through most of that tumultuous era was hailed as a benchmark of 20th-century journalism, died on Tuesday in Atlanta. He was 89.

The cause was congestive heart failure, his son Clint said. Mr. Sitton had been in a hospice.

(Courtesy of The Washington Post)

Charlotte Saikowski, 73

April 14, 2000

Charlotte Saikowski, 73, the Washington bureau chief for the Christian Science Monitor from 1983 until she retired in 1990, died of a heart ailment April 8 at Lynn House, a Christian Science nursing home in Alexandria. She lived in Washington.

Ms. Saikowski joined the Monitor in 1962 and came to its Washington bureau a decade later. She had previous assignments as bureau chief in Tokyo and Moscow and as chief editorial writer.

(Courtesy of Medill/Northwestern)

Walter F. Rugaber (BSJ60) was president and publisher of the Roanoke Times & World News, which is now called The Roanoke Times, and also serves as president of Landmark Publishing Group, headquartered in Norfolk, Va.

Burl Osborne, president and editor of The Dallas Morning News, has overall responsibility for the operation of the newspaper, including direct supervision of the news and editorial departments.

In October, 1980, Osborne joined The Morning News as executive editor, with responsibility for all news gathering and editing. In 1981 he became vice president and executive editor and in 1983 he was named senior vice president and editor. He was named president and editor in 1985.

(Courtesy of The New York Times)

David Laventhol, Publisher on Both Coasts, Dies at 81

By Dennis Hevesi

April 9, 2015

David A. Laventhol, a former publisher of The Los Angeles Times and Newsday who made a journalistically acclaimed but financially doomed attempt to break into the New York City newspaper market by starting New York Newsday in 1985, died on Wednesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 81.

The cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease, his son, Peter, said.

Peter R. Kann is the former chairman of Dow Jones & Company and editorial director of Dow Jones’ publications.

In 1967, Mr. Kann became The Journal’s first resident reporter in Vietnam. From 1969 through 1975, he continued to cover the Vietnam War, as well as other events across Asia, as a roving reporter based in Hong Kong. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1972 for distinguished reporting on international affairs for his coverage of the 1971 India-Pakistan War.

Author Robert C. Christopher, Editor At Time, Newsweek
Chicago Tribune, June 15, 1992
By Kenan Heise

Robert C. Christopher, 68, an author and former editor at Time and Newsweek magazines, had been secretary of the Pulitzer Prize Board and administrator of Pulitzer Prizes at Columbia University since 1981. A resident of Old Lyme, Conn., he died of emphysema Sunday in Lawrence and Memorial Hospital, New London, Conn.

(Courtesy of The New York Times)

Robert C. Maynard, 56, Publisher Who Helped Minority Journalists

By Bruce Lambert

August 19, 1993

Robert C. Maynard, a trailblazer for minority journalists who was the first black editor and owner of a major daily newspaper in the United States, died at his home in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday. He was 56.

He died of prostate cancer, a family spokesman said.

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