Newspaper columnist Kington dies
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Author, broadcaster and newspaper columnist Miles Kington has died after a short illness at the age of 66.
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Mary Rettig Irish, a philanthropist and wife of Hearst Newspapers President George B. Irish, died Sunday after a lengthy battle with cancer. She was 59.
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: Pierre Salinger, who served as President John F. Kennedy&#39;s Press Secretary and later had a long career with ABC News, has died, the network said.
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The editor of a Baghdad weekly newspaper was murdered at the weekend, Iraq's Journalistic Freedoms Observatory said on Tuesday.
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Helen Copley, former chairman of privately held newspaper chain the Copley Press and publisher of the San Diego Union-Tribune, has died at the age of 81, the newspaper said on Thursday.
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Gerald M. Boyd, a former managing editor of The New York Times who was forced to resign amid a reporter's plagiarizing scandal, has died. He was 56.
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Susan Sontag, the writer and activist whose powerful intellect helped shape modern American thinking for nearly half a century, died yesterday at the age of 71.
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Said Sonbol, a veteran columnist and former editor-in-chief of Al-Akhbar, one of Egypt's leading daily newspapers, has died. He was 75.
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Description: British journalist Anthony Sampson, who died this weekend at age 78, was a longtime resident of South Africa and edited the influential anti-apartheid magazine, Drum.
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LONDON, AFP) - Veteran BBC presenter and humorist Alan Coren has died from cancer aged 69, the BBC announced Friday.
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Frances Lewine, who covered the White House for the Associated Press during the administrations of six presidents and spent nearly three decades as a CNN assignment editor and field producer, died Saturday of an apparent stroke. She was 86.
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Alfred H. Peet, the son of a Dutch coffee merchant who pioneered a revolution in roasting exotic dark beans that led to Americaâs love affair with high-end coffee, died Wednesday at his home in Ashland, Ore. He was 87.
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Pierre Salinger, press secretary to the late U.S. presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and a distinguished journalist, died of a heart attack on Saturday, his family said on Sunday.
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SARASOTA, Florida  - Veteran journalist John W. "Pat" Heffernan, the only foreigner to have been president of the prestigious National Press Club in Washington, died on Tuesday after a brief illness, friends said. He was 96.
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Chicago Sun-Times editor-in-chief Michael Cooke will head to the New York Daily News tabloid to become its top editor in February, a Daily News spokeswoman said on Thursday.
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Pierre Berton, whose populist tales of Canadian history made him one of the country's best known writers and media personalities, has died at age of 84.
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A Commons motion pays tribute to BBC News website writer Ivan Noble, who died from a brain tumour on Monday.