John Sargent, Former Doubleday President, Dies at 87
Mr. Sargent oversaw the expansion of a modest-size family-controlled book publisher into an industry giant with interests extending into broadcasting and baseball.
Robert B. Cohen Dies at 85; Founded the Hudson News Chain
Mr. Cohen was president of the Hudson County News Company, a newspaper distributorship, when it went into the retail field in the mid-1970s by taking over a newsstand at the Newark airport.
Richard Threlkeld, Award-Winning Journalist, Dies at 74
In his 33 years as a correspondent for CBS and ABC News, Mr. Threlkeld reported on wars, presidential campaigns, assassinations and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Mary Raftery, 54, Dies; Documented Child Abuse in Ireland
Ms. Raftery’s documentary “States of Fear” detailed a Dickensian network of reformatories and residential schools for poor, neglected and abandoned children.
Charles W. Bailey, 82, Dies; Wrote ‘Seven Days in May’
Mr. Bailey, a reporter and editor at The Minneapolis Tribune, won renown as a co-author of the novel “Seven Days in May,” about an American coup plot.
Edie Stevenson Dies at 81; Wrote ‘Let’s Get Mikey’ Ad
Ms. Stevenson, a divorced mother of four, was the creative mind behind the television spot advertising Life cereal, which ran for more than a decade.
Cardinal John P. Foley, 76, Vatican Spokesman, Dies
Cardinal Foley heeded God’s “whisper” to become a priest as well as his own inclinations to go to journalism school, then combined the roles as the Vatican’s communications director.
Oscar Griffin Jr., 78, Pulitzer Prize Winner Who Brought Down Scheming Texas Tycoon, Dies
Mr. Griffin unraveled an elaborate fraud scheme in four articles that earned him a Pulitzer Prize for distinguished local reporting at age 29.
Louis Silverstein, Times Art Director, Dies at 92
Mr. Silverstein helped devise a bigger, more visually expansive New York Times and in doing so, influenced the redesign of newspapers from coast to coast.
Tom Wicker, Journalist and Observer, Dies at 85
Made prominent by his coverage of the Kennedy assassination, Mr. Wicker became Washington bureau chief for The New York Times and an iconoclastic columnist.
Christopher Ma, Washington Post Executive, Dies at 61
Mr. Ma was the Post Company’s senior vice president for new business development and publisher of Express, the company’s free commuter tabloid newspaper for the Washington area.
