By force of personality, Mr. Gelb was a dominant figure in the newsroom at The New York Times, lifting its metropolitan and arts coverage to new heights.
Mr. Worthy defied borders and the United States government while seeking the truth with his pen and a notepad.
During Mr. Erburu’s 35 years at the company, Times Mirror acquired The Baltimore Sun, The Denver Post and the Long Island paper Newsday, as well as television stations, a book publisher and magazines.
Mr. Coughlin, the editor of a small North Carolina paper, oversaw coverage that earned a Pulitzer Prize for public service in 1990.
In 1960, Mr. Hoberman transformed the music station KABC in Los Angeles into what is generally considered the country’s first 24-hour all-talk station.
Mr. Tomlinson was a journalist who used his leadership role in federal communications agencies
to counter what he regarded as liberal bias.
Mr. Feldstein took over a fledgling humor magazine called Mad in 1956 and made it a popular, profitable and enduring wellspring of American satire.
Mr. Smith’s Scenes column in The Village Voice was the message board of the hippie counterculture in the 1960s.
Mr. Honan was
a culture editor for The New York Times and the author of several books.
Ms. Wallace formed a small but prestigious literary agency that represented Erich Segal, William F. Buckley Jr., Joan Didion and Don DeLillo.
Mr. Janeway was also executive editor of The Atlantic Monthly and the author of two books on the decline of democracy and journalism.
Ms. Wadewitz, a British literature scholar, completed more than 49,000 edits on the online encyclopedia, and was an influential editor there, focusing on women’s biographies.
Mr. Stone was a passionate voice against racism, police brutality and political corruption, with credibility at both the statehouse and street levels.
Mr. Black, a commercial artist, drafted the original rendering of Procter & Gamble’s trademark “genie in a bottle.”
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Mr. Slater covered Israel for Time for two tumultuous decades and wrote more than two dozen books.
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Ms. Brooks gave complexity to the “women’s features” she was assigned to in the postwar years.
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Ms. Brooks gave complexity to the female-interest subjects she was assigned to at Look from 1951 to 1971.
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The company he founded in 1964, now called International Data Group, or IDG, developed the “For Dummies” instructional reference books and organized technology events, including the Macworld trade shows.
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Mr. Singh, a diplomat, journalist and a chronicler of the bloody sectarian strife in India, was also known for his wit and bawdy stories.
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Mr. Thomas was ubiquitous in Hollywood, covering its stars and moguls from 1944 to 2010 for The Associated Press, and writing a number of biographies about them, as well.
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