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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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Jack William Fuller was born in Chicago, Illinois, on October 12, 1946. The son of Ernest Fuller, a financial reporter for the Chicago Tribune, and Dorothy Fuller, he followed his father into journalism, beginning as a copyboy at the Chicago Tribune at age 16. He received his BS degree in Journalism from Northwestern University in 1968, and also attended Yale Law School, receiving his JD degree in 1973.
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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.
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Russell Baker, in full Russell Wayne Baker (born August 14, 1925, Loudoun County, Virginia, U.S.), American newspaper columnist, author, humorist, and political satirist, who used good-natured humour to comment slyly and trenchantly on a wide range of social and political matters.
Commendatore in the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy, 1991. Recipient, Citizens Union Civic Leadership Award, 1993. Columbia Law School Medal for Excellence, 1997. Town Hall Friend of the Arts Award, 2001. Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star from Japan, 2004. Centennial Medal, American Academy in Rome, 2006. Lawrence A. Wien Prize for Social Responsibility, 2010. After two years on the faculty at the University of Minnesota Law School, joined the Columbia faculty in 1957.
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.
By J.Y. Smith
Special to The Washington Post
Friday, May 14, 1999; Page A1
Meg Greenfield, 68, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editor of the editorial page of The Washington Post and a columnist for Newsweek magazine, died of cancer yesterday at her home in Washington.