Bob McManus, the trenchant editorial page editor of The New York Post and a columnist for…
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Robert W. McChesney, Who Warned of Corporate Media Control, Dies at 72
Robert W. McChesney, an influential left-leaning media critic who argued that corporate ownership was bad for…
Jesse Kornbluth, Magazine Writer Who Covered Everything, Dies at 79
The article of which he was most proud was “The Woman Who Beat the Klan,” published…
John Thornton, Venture Capitalist Who Founded The Texas Tribune, Dies at 59
John Thornton, a financier who leveraged his wealth and influence to embark on the seemingly quixotic…
Overlooked No More: Katharine McCormick, Force Behind the Birth Control Pill
This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning…
Hank Steinbrecher, Who Helped Elevate Soccer in the U.S., Dies at 77
Hank Steinbrecher, a soccer evangelist from Queens whose passion as a top United States official in…
Richard Carlson, Journalist Who Led Voice of America, Dies at 84
Richard Carlson, who won a Peabody Award for his investigative television reports about an automobile company’s…