Tom Shales, a Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic for The Washington Post, died Jan. 13 at a hospital in Fairfax County, Va.
He was 79. The cause was complications from covid and renal failure, said his caretaker, Victor Herfurth. As The Post’s chief TV critic starting in 1977, his column was widely syndicated, bringing him national attention and influence.
Shales covered of all forms of the medium, from nature documentaries to late-night talk shows, network sitcoms to cable dramas.
In 1988, he won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism, the fourth TV reviewer to earn the top prize in journalism. He was an early advocate for cable TV.
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