Updated: Wednesday, February 27, 2008
2004 Passings
Taylor, a former Philadelphia Daily News writer, died at age 52. One civic group, so jaded by what they considered an unfair press, awarded him a plaque on which was inscribed "To Leon Taylor who told the truth."
Cherry, a civil rights leader who stayed active at his Daytona Times weekly newspaper despite cancer treatments, died at age 76. He was a 2004 NABJ Region IV Hall of Fame inductee.
Morton, a veteran KNBC news executive, died after a long battle with leukemia. She was a 1970 graduate of the Columbia University School of Journalism and 57 at the time of her death.
Julia Scott Reed, Pioneering Columnist
Clarence Benton, Founded 'Asheville Advocate'
Stan Allison, L.A. Times Writer, Journalists' Mentor
Lu Palmer, Voice of Black Chicago
Derek Ali, former Dayton chapter president
Carl Morris, former NABJ Executive Director
Larry McCormick, veteran TV Anchor in Los Angeles
Peggy Peterman, 1989 NABJ Lifetime Achievement Winner
Former Detroit TV Reporter Bob Bennett
Earl Byrd, lived some of Black men's challenges
Sportswriter Ralph Wiley Dies at 52
Caesar Alsop, Philadelphia Daily News Sports Editor
Kathryn Hall Bogle
William A. Brower: Groundbreaking journalist found voice with Blade
Retired Star-Telegram journalist Savannah Burno, 52, dies
Vernon Jarrett dies in Chicago, succumbing to cancer at age 85
E. Rodney Jones has more honors than he can count
Aspiring Journalist, Ayesha Judkins, Killed By Alleged Drunken Driver
Harmon Griggs Perry
Prentis Rogers
Dean Wakefield -- journalist who focused on race |
