David Carr, the New York Times media columnist who overcame numerous battles with addiction to become one of the nation’s most recognizable journalists, died on Thursday after collapsing in the newsroom, the New York Times announced on Thursday evening. He was 58.
“I am sorry to have to tell you that our wonderful, esteemed colleague David Carr died suddenly tonight after collapsing in the newsroom,” Times editor Dean Baquet wrote in a message to Times employees. “A group of us were with his wife, Jill, and one of his daughters, at the hospital. His daughter Erin said he was special, and that he was.”
Baquet continued: “He was the finest media reporter of his generation, a remarkable and funny man who was one of the leaders of our newsroom. He was our biggest champion, and his unending passion for journalism and for the truth will be missed by his family at The Times, by his readers around the world, and by people who love journalism.”
On Thursday evening, he moderated a panel conversation that included Edward Snowden, filmmaker Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald to discuss last year’s National Security Agency surveillance revelations. Afterward, he collapsed at his office around 9 p.m., Times spokesperson Eileen Murphy said. It’s clear what the cause of death was, or whether he died in the newsroom or en route to the hospital.
For more than two decades, Carr focused his considerable talents on media criticism, lacing his columns with incisive commentary and wit. For the New York Times, which he joined in 2002 as a business reporter writing on the magazine industry, he authored the Media Equation column, which ran on Mondays. Carr was editor of Washington City Paper before joining the Times. He was editor of the Twin Cities Reader, also an alternative weekly, from 1993 to 1995.
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