Carol Nunnelley, founding executive director of the Alabama Initiative for Independent Journalism, died Dec. 3 after a long illness. more

William "Bill" King Mitchell, 82, retired sports writer for The State (Columbia, South Carolina), died Nov. 28 at Agape - Lexington Community Hospice House after a year's struggle with liver cancer. more

Warner Miller Montgomery, Ph.D., co-owner and past president of The Columbia Star newspaper in South Carolina, passed away Nov. 24 from complications of advanced dementia. He was 84. more

Anthony Campbell, the former executive editor and managing editor of The Denver Post who led the paper to a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1986 for a series on missing children, has died, according to former associates at the Post. He was 82. more

As of Dec. 5, CPJ’s preliminary investigations showed at least 63 journalists and media workers were among the more than 16,000 killed since the war began on Oct. 7 — with more than 15,500 Palestinian deaths in Gaza and the West Bank and 1,200 deaths in Israel. The deadliest day of the war for journalist deaths was its first day, Oct. 7, with six journalists killed; the second-deadliest day occurred on Nov. 18, with five killed. more

Phillip Meek, a former president and publisher of the Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram, died Nov. 21 in his Michigan home. He was 86. more

His political journal challenged liberal and conservative orthodoxies for decades. more

Ron DeBrock, an award-winning journalist and editor of The Telegraph (Alton, Illinois) since 2019, died late Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 22, at his home in Godfrey after an illness. He was 62. more

As of Nov. 27, CPJ’s preliminary investigations showed at least 57 journalists and media workers were among the more than 15,000 killed since the war began on Oct. 7 — with over 14,000 Palestinian deaths in Gaza and the West Bank and 1,200 deaths in Israel. The deadliest day of the war for journalist deaths was its first day, Oct. 7, with six journalists killed; the second-deadliest day occurred on Nov. 18, with five killed. more

With a sharp eye for trends, a soft spot for reporters and a fondness for the untold story, Bill Pinella was a guiding force behind the Press Democrat’s sports coverage for nearly two decades. more

As of Nov. 21, CPJ’s preliminary investigations showed at least 53 journalists and media workers were among the more than 14,000 killed since the war began on Oct. 7 — with over 13,000 Palestinian deaths in Gaza and the West Bank and 1,200 deaths in Israel. The second-deadliest day for journalist deaths occurred on Nov. 18, with five killed; the deadliest day of the war was its first day, Oct. 7, with 6 journalists killed. more

Terry R. Taylor, who in two trailblazing decades as the first female sports editor of The Associated Press transformed the news agency’s emphasis into multilayered coverage of rigorous reporting, entertaining enterprise and edgy analysis, has died. She was 71. more

Helen T. Gray, a former faith and religion editor at The Kansas City Star whose journalistic career spanned over four decades, died Saturday, Nov. 11, following an illness. more

As of Nov. 14, CPJ’s preliminary investigations showed at least 42 journalists and media workers were among the more than 12,000 killed since the war began on Oct. 7 — with over 11,000 Palestinian deaths in Gaza and the West Bank and 1,200 deaths in Israel. more

Mike Shuster, an award-winning foreign and diplomatic correspondent for National Public Radio, died Monday, Nov. 6. During more than three decades as a reporter and an editor, his work spanned the world and made him an eyewitness to some of the most momentous events in modern history. more

Philip Meyer, a journalist who introduced computers to newsrooms in the late 1960s as a powerful tool for mining reams of data, inspiring generations of reporters to fuse social science methods with classic reporting to produce revelatory journalism, died Nov. 4 at his home in Carrboro, N.C. He was 93. more

Long before she assumed the title and duties of publisher and chairman of Consolidated Publishing in January of 2018, Josephine Ayers had been a strong influence throughout the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s to promote the arts in Calhoun County, in Alabama and around the world. more

His tiny California newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize for its exposé of Synanon, a renowned drug rehabilitation program that had turned into a violent operation. more

He brought an all-embracing enthusiasm to about 4,000 articles for The New York Times on modern dance, tap, ballet and practically every other genre. more

Yaniv Zohar, a former Associated Press videojournalist and beloved colleague who covered conflicts and major news in his native country for three decades, was killed in his home during Hamas’ bloody cross-border rampage on Oct. 7 along with his wife and two daughters. He was 54. more