Helen Copley, Newspaper Publisher, Dies at 81
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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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Mona Van Duyn, the nation's first female poet laureate and a Pulitzer Prize winner, died Thursday morning at her home from bone cancer, her husband said. She was 83.
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When a house fire last year killed 88-year-old Helene Whitlock Alley and her husband, a professor emeritus at the U.S. Naval Academy, she was remembered primarily as an unassuming retiree and a devoted wife.
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William E. Peters, a journalist who wrote one of the first national articles on Martin Luther King Jr., has died. He was 85.
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Charles E. Scripps, longtime chairman of media company E.W. Scripps Co., died on Saturday, the company said.
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Pierre Salinger, 79, dies: The press secretary to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and foreign correspondent for ABC News dies in France.
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usan Mary Alsop, who proclaimed that she saw &quot;no future in being an ordinary person&quot; and became a celebrated political hostess and later an author, died on Wednesday at her home in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington. She was 86.
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British jazz singer and author George Melly died on Thursday at the age of 80, his wife Diana said in a statement.
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Magazine photojournalist Carl Mydans,  a pioneer of photo essays at Life magazine in the 1930s, has  died at age 97.
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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. He was 79.
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A Londoner believed to be the world's oldest newspaper columnist dies at the age of 101.
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Gordon Hinckley, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, dies, aged 97.
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Shirley Chisholm, the first black US congresswoman and also the first woman to seek presidency, dies aged 80.
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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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Alan Horton, senior vice president of newspapers for EW Scripps Co., will retire from the company Dec. 31,. Horton, 61, has been affiliated with Scripps since 1965, when he took his first job out of college as a reporter for The Cincinnati Post.
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Singer and author died at his London home, aged 80.
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After 216 years as a broadsheet newspaper, The Times will become a tabloid-only publication starting Monday. The move follows a decision 11 months ago to publish the British national daily