Obituaries

Former CNN anchor Bernard Shaw died Sept. 7 of pneumonia unrelated to COVID-19, Shaw’s family announced in a statement. He was 82. Shaw was CNN’S first chief anchor and was with the network when it launched on June 1, 1980. He retired from CNN after more than 20 years on February 28, 2001. During his storied career, Shaw reported on some of the biggest stories of that time — including the student revolt in Tiananmen Square in May 1989, the First Gulf war live from Baghdad in 1991 and the 2000 presidential election.

Anne Garrels, longtime foreign correspondent for NPR, died Sept. 7 of lung cancer. She was 71. When she arrived at NPR in 1988, she already had a lot of experience under her belt — including 10 years in television news at ABC, where she was bureau chief in both Moscow and Central America.

The charisma and upbeat attitude Carroll Quinn embodied served him well in managing what can be a tough part of the newspaper industry: circulation. Retired Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) Tribune-review General Manager Art Mcmullen said Quinn’s personality was a good fit in the role of vice president of circulation and production, ensuring newspapers reached thousands of homes and dealing with customer complaints when something went awry. Quinn, of Pittsburgh, died Sept. 2 at UPMC Presbyterian hospital. He was 66.

Las Vegas Reviewjournal investigative reporter Jeff German was found dead with stab wounds outside his home Saturday morning, Sept. 3. Police reports show that he was killed the evening of Sept. 2. German, whose work in Las Vegas spanned four decades, made a career of breaking big stories about everything from organized crime and government malfeasance to political scandals. “The Reviewjournal family is devastated to lose Jeff,” Executive Editor Glenn Cook said.

Tom Andrews, retired publisher of the Picayune Item in Mississippi and president of the Mississippi Press Association from 2007-2008, has died. Andrews joined the staff of the Picayune Item newspaper in 1978 as an ad salesman after 13 years working with G.C. Murphy Co. where he started as a stock boy and advanced to regional sales manager. At the Item, he quickly rose to the position of advertising manager and spent 10 years as publisher, retiring in 2010.

Bryce Nelson, a former Los Angeles Times reporter and a longtime professor at USC’S journalism school, where he served as director in the 1980s, died Aug. 20 of complications from Parkinson’s disease, his family said. He was 84.

Subramaniam Harihar, a longtime journalist in Malaysia who covered the country’s period of extraordinary economic growth for The Associated Press, has died at age 79. Subramaniam used the byline Hari Subramaniam for his AP stories and was known as Maniam to his friends. He had been in ill health for several years and died Aug. 21, according to The Star newspaper, where he worked after retiring from the AP in 1997.

Ken Stoffregen,a printer and graphic arts teacher in suburban Chicago, passed away peacefully on Sept. 7. After leaving the Air Force, he followed his passion and became a shop and graphic arts teacher. He owned his own print shop for more than 15 years. But teaching was his calling, and he returned to the field, earning a M.A. in Education, eventually retiring after almost 20 years.

Tim Page, a storied Vietnam War photographer, died Aug. 24 at his home in Fernmount, New South Wales, Australia. He was 78. The British photographer was wounded four times while covering the war and inspired Dennis Hopper’s character in “Apocalypse Now.”

Jim Angell, a former Associated Press Wyoming correspondent and Wyoming Press Association executive director, died Aug. 17. He was 64. Angell was a fierce advocate for journalism and journalists in Wyoming and known for his unflinching personality, wit and unfailing sense of humor. Most recently, Angell was managing editor of the Cowboy State Daily, which he helped establish in 2019, two years after he and his wife, Mary, founded the Wyoming News Exchange, a cooperative service for the state’s newspapers.