Former Post Editor Campbell Dies
Former editor-in-chief of the Post-Dispatch, Cole Campbell, died in an single-car accident in Reno, Nevada this morning. Campbell was editor of the St. Louis daily from 1996 to 2000. He was working as dean of the journalism school at the University of Nevada, Reno.
From the AP.
I am so sorry to hear this. Cole Campbell was a funny and engaging guy. Whatever you think of public journalism he got more people in STL thinking about the role of a newspaper than had in quite a while....or have since.
Posted by laura on Sun., Jan 7, 2007 at 1:22 PMI agree with Laura (Hi, Laura!). Cole Campbell was a font of ideas -- which he could express with hyper-fluency -- many of them interesting, and some brilliant.
Posted by Eddie on Sun., Jan 7, 2007 at 6:31 PM
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