Greg Evans Associate New York New York tv video film broadway journalist Greg Evans Associate New York New York

Pete Hamill Dies: Acclaimed New York Tabloid Journalist Was 85

Reading now: 684
deadline.com

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticPete Hamill, the Brooklyn-born journalist whose street-savvy writing style and editorial hand lent an authentic, even quintessential voice to city tabloids The New York Post and The Daily News over a 50-year-career, died today in his native borough.

He was 85.His brother, the writer Denis Hamill, told The New York Times that Hamill fell at home on Saturday after returning from a dialysis treatment.

He was taken to Brooklyn’s Methodist Hospital were he died apparently from kidney and heart failure.Hamill began his newspaper career at the Post in 1960.

Over the next decades he would write for the Daily News, Newsday, The Village Voice, The Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, Playboy, Rolling Stone and.

Read more on deadline.com
The website celebsbar.com is an aggregator of news from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can send a complaint on the news if you find it unreliable.

Related News

DMCA