Veteran political reporter Pat Heffernan dies
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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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Bill Boyle, a 21-year veteran of The Daily News, guided much of the paperâs coverage of major stories, particularly the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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Edward Behr, a noted British foreign correspondent and writer who penned books on history, good eating and his career as a journalist, died over the weekend in Paris, his family said Sunday. He was 81.
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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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Jeane Kirkpatrick, a key player in former President Ronald Reagan's conservative foreign policy as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has died, the American Enterprise Institute, where she was a senior fellow, said on Friday.
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Gary Webb, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who wrote a controversial series of stories linking the CIA to crack cocaine trafficking in Los Angeles, has died at age 49.
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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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Cardinal James A. Hickey, former archbishop of Washington, who led the Roman Catholic Church in the nation&#39;s capital for two decades, died Sunday.
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A journalist who won national  attention with a series of later-discredited articles linking  the CIA with the spread of crack cocaine in Los Angeles has  died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Los  Angeles Times reported on Sunday.
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A veteran Russian journalist and author who made her name as a searing critic of the Kremlin and its policies in Chechnya, was found dead on Saturday.
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John Deardourff, a pioneering political consultant who specialized in working for moderate Republican candidates, including former President Ford, died of cancer Friday at his suburban McLean, Va., home. He was 61.
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Eddie Adams, an Associated Press photojournalist famous for his photo of a communist guerrilla being executed in a Saigon street, died Sept. 19 in Manhattan of complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease). He was 71.
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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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One of the country's best-read columnists has died after suffering from a brain tumour, the Daily Mail says.
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LOS ANGELES -- A newspaper is providing details into the events leading to the death of former San Jose, Calif., resident and NFL player Pat Tillman.
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NEW YORK - Eddie Adams, a photojournalist whose half-century of arresting work was defined by a single frame - a Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press photo of a communist guerrilla being executed in a Saigon street during the Vietnam War - died Sunday. He was 71...
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Jeane Kirkpatrick, a key player in  former President Ronald Reagan's conservative foreign policy as  U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has died, the American  Enterprise Institute, where she was a senior fellow, said on  Friday.