Phelps Dewey, CNPA president in 1989, died March 29, 2021, in Fort Bragg, his family informed CNPA. He was 93. Dewey, a Minnesota native, moved to the San Francisco...
Charles "Chuck" Freeman, former publisher of Century Group Media's Record Gazette in Banning, died March 31, 2021, the newspaper reports. He was 81 and had a lifelong battle...
Jimmie Jones, former publisher of Media News Group's Times-Herald in Vallejo, died April 6, 2021, the newspaper reports. He was 82. Jones began as a copy boy at the...
Norma Kostecka, publisher of Sonoma Media Investments' North Bay Business Journal, died March 31, 2021, the Business Journal reports. She was 58 and had breast cancer. Kostecka had been...
Bob Ingle, a former executive editor at the San Jose Mercury News who is credited with launching the online delivery of news, died March 16, 2021, at his Saratoga...
Marion Lewenstein, journalism professor emerita and CNPA's University Journalism Educator of the Year in 1981, died March 6, 2021, of complications of heart and circulatory disease at...
Allen P. McCombs, former owner of Champion Newspapers in Chino, and 1982 CNPA president, died March 12, 2021, at the Skilled Nursing Unit of Inland...
Jon Newhall, a member of a California newspaper family, died Feb. 19, 2021, in Oakland following a pulmonary embolism, brother Tony Newhall reported. He was...
Karen Northrop-Babineau, former publisher and editor of the old Glendora Community News, died Feb. 21, 2021, at San Dimas Community Hospital due to COVID-19 complications,...
John Futch, a former managing editor and executive news editor at Southern California News Group's Press-Telegram in Long Beach, died Feb. 26, 2021, in Cambodia after suffering...
