Hasta La Creative!

Mr. Suares, the first Op-Ed page art director at The New York Times, began a visual era for editorial illustrations that influenced many other publications.

Mr. Kaplow’s resonant voice and craggy face were familiar to generations of viewers of the nightly news broadcast.

Ms. Thomas covered every president from John F. Kennedy to Barack Obama, but her career ended ignominiously over remarks she made about Israeli Jews.

Ms. Hess revamped an educational program that had lost touch with the publishing industry and helped its graduates get jobs.

In the 1950s and ’60s, numerous secret agents for the United States used journalism as a cover. Mr. Goodrich, unlike some, considered himself primarily a spy.

Mr. Nayder’s epiphany that people were attracted to “train-wreck” music led him to become the Chicago-based founder and host of “The Annoying Music Show” on NPR.

Mr. Flippo, a dean of pop music journalism who wrote for Rolling Stone, insisted on profiling musicians like Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton during an era of rock celebrity mania.

Mr. Hastings, an intrepid war zone reporter in Afghanistan and Iraq, won a Polk Award in 2010 for his Rolling Stone magazine cover story, “The Runaway General.”

Ms. Hanft was an actress whose gift for camp humor, surreal scenarios and risqué roles made her the queen of Off Off Broadway during a golden age for experimental theater.

Ms. Stapleton starred as the big-hearted and submissive — up to a point — housewife of Archie Bunker on the groundbreaking 1970s television series “All in the Family.”