Mike Flynn was born in Quincy, Illinois and died on June 23, 2016. He was an American online journalist. He was known for as original editor of the Big Government website at Breitbart News. Flynn ran for Congress during the Illinois’s 18th congressional district special election, in 2015, winning 27.8% of the vote in the ..
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Benoîte Groult was born on January 31, 1920, in Paris, and died on June 20, 2016, in Hyères. She was a French journalist, writer, and feminist activist. She was the daughter of André Groult and Nicole Poiret, sister of Paul Poiret and herself a fashion designer, who was raised in the Parisian upper class. Following ..
Hendrik Johannes Adrianus “Henk” Hofland was born on July 20, 1927, and died on June 21, 2016. He was a Dutch journalist, commentator, essayist and columnist. Mostly known as H.J.A. Hofland, and was often referred to as the éminence grise of Dutch journalism. During 1999, Henk was named Dutch “Journalist of the century” in a ..
Jack William Fuller was born on October 21, 1946, in Chicago, Illinois and died on June 21, 2016. He was an American journalist who spent nearly forty years working in newspapers. He started his journalism career as a copy boy for the Chicago Tribune. Then, he became a police reporter, a war correspondent in Vietnam, ..
Karl Frederick Dallas was born on January 29, 1931, and died on June 21, 2016. He was a British journalist, musician, author, playwright, peace campaigner, record producer and broadcaster. Karl was described as “the most vigorous, influential, and informed folk music journalist in Britain. He grew up in a socialist household. Dallas was enrolled in ..
Lois Duncan Steinmetz was born on April 28, 1934, and died on June 15, 2016. She was known as Lois Duncan. She was an American writer of children’s books, best known for young-adult novels of suspense. Lois wrote two early novels under the pen name Lois Kerry. She received the 1992 Margaret Edwards Award from ..
Tan Sri Abdullah Ahmad was born on July 4, 1937, and died on June 12, 2016. He was a Malaysian journalist and a politician. He took up the role has editor-in-chief of the New Straits Times. Abdullah Ahmad had written an article criticising Saudi Arabian policies that aided the United States invasion of Iraq, among ..
William Connor Wright Jr. was born on October 22, 1930, and died on June 4, 2016. He was an American author, editor, and playwright. Wright was best known for his nonfiction writing, which covered a wildly divergent list of subjects: from the April in Paris Ball at the Waldorf-Astoria to genetics and behavior to true ..
Farid Mustafevich Seiful-Mulyukov was born on November 19, 1930, in Tashkent, USSR and died on June 4, 2016, Moscow, Russia. He was a Soviet Russian and international journalist, writer, orientalist, Arabist, a leading television Central Television and honored Artist of Russia (1995). Farid Seiful-Mulyukov was also the author of numerous reports from around the world ..
David Gilkey was born in 1966 and died on June 5, 2016. He was an American photojournalist. Gilkey was the winner of a 2015 Edward R. Murrow Award (Corporation for Public Broadcasting). David worked for the Boulder Daily Camera. He worked for the Detroit Free Press, (1996 to 2007). David won an Emmy for “Michigan ..