Just After a Conversation With Edward Snowden, New York Times Author Drops Dead
By Newser Editors. David Carr, author of the New York Times’ “Media Equation” column, collapsed and died at his office last night just hours after moderating a “TimesTalks” conversation with Edward Snowden, director Laura Poitras, and journalist Glenn Greenwald on Citizenfour, a documentary about Snowden’s NSA leaks. Carr, 58, lived in Montclair, NJ, with his wife and their daughter (he has two more children), and wrote The Night of the Gun, a 2008 memoir about how he went from cocaine addict to single father raising twin daughters to, ultimately, sober media columnist. Prior to joining the Times in 2002, he helmed alternative weeklies in Minneapolis and Washington, DC, and was a contributing writer for the Atlantic and New York magazine, the AP reports.
Last year, Carr started teaching a Boston University class on how journalism can sustain itself in the digital age, an issue about which he had written extensively. “I think a lot of journalism education that is going on is broadly not preparing kids for the world that they are stepping into,” he told the Boston Globe. (Read more about New York Times author passing away HERE)
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Author David Carr Dies at 58
By Bruce Weber and Ashley Southall. David Carr, who wriggled away from the demon of drug addiction to become a journalistic celebrity, a name-brand media columnist at The New York Times and a best-selling author who reported on his own near demise and recovery, died on Thursday in Manhattan. He was 58.
Mr. Carr collapsed in the Times newsroom, where he was found shortly before 9 p.m. He was taken to St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The cause had not been determined.
Mr. Carr also survived cancer and struggled with alcoholism, but none of that undercut his energy. He made frequent television appearances on talk shows and news programs, often spoke to journalism classes, and in 2011 was the leading figure in a documentary about The Times.
On the evening he died, he had moderated a panel discussion of “Citizenfour,” the Oscar-nominated documentary about Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked classified information indicating that the United States government was conducting global surveillance on a far larger scale than was publicly known. (Read more from this story HERE)
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UPDATE: Autopsy Suggests David Carr Died From “A Particularly Aggressive Strain of Lung Cancer”
By Thomas Tracy. New York Times columnist David Carr died of complications from a particularly aggressive strain of lung cancer, the city’s medical examiner ruled Saturday.
The renowned 58-year-old scribe, who wrote the influential Media Equation column, was suffering from small cell lung cancer when he collapsed in the newsroom shortly before 9 p.m. on Thursday.
He was rushed to Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospital, where he died, the Times reported. (Read more from this story HERE)
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