PEOPLE-DAVID CARR/NYT FILE New York Times media columnist David Carr dead at 58 - New York Times

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  • Title: PEOPLE-DAVID CARR/NYT FILE New York Times media columnist David Carr dead at 58 - New York Times
  • Date: 13th February 2015
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (FILE) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) ANDREW ROSSI, DIRECTOR, ON WIKILEAKS AND NEW YORK TIMES REPORTER, DAVID CARR, BEING INTERVIEWD AFTER "PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES" FILM RELEASE (SOUNDBITE) (English) NEW YORK TIMES REPORTER, DAVID CARR, SAYING: "I think there's always going to be a physical artifact. It may become a luxury item that is a conveyor of status. When you have an iPad nobody can see what you're reading. Some people want a big newspaper, they want the serendipity that occurs with that. In terms of -- will the New York times survive, I think our recent results indicate that we're a robust player going forward in the global race for information and customers. It's going to be a daily fight though. Over and over we're going to be in lots of little businesses, grabbing every little nickel and we no longer assume that people pick us up because we have to, we fight for customers every single day."
  • Embargoed: 28th February 2015 12:00
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  • Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: THIS VIDEO CONTAINS MATERIAL WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY 4:3
    New York Times media columnist David Carr died at the newspaper's office on Thursday (February 12), the paper reported. He was 58.
    Carr penned the widely read Media Equation column that appeared in the Monday business section and focused on "media as it intersects with business, culture and government," according to his biography on the New York Times website. He was also a general assignment reporter for the paper's culture section.
    The Times did not provide a cause of death.
    Carr joined the New York Times in 2002 covering the magazine publishing industry, after working as a contributor to the Atlantic Monthly and New York magazine, the paper said.
    Earlier in his career, Carr was editor of the alternative Washington D.C. weekly, Washington City Paper, the Times said. In 2000, he joined Inside.com, a news site about the publishing industry.
    Carr's memoir, "The Night of the Gun," which centered on his past struggles with drug addiction, was published in 2008 by Simon and Schuster, the paper said.
    He lived in Montclair, New Jersey, and is survived by his wife Jill Rooney Carr and his three children.
    Carr is the second major force in U.S. journalism to die in the past two days.
    On Wednesday, Veteran CBS News correspondent Bob Simon was killed in a car accident in New York City at the age of 73. Simon's decades-long career included covering major overseas conflicts and surviving Iraqi prison.
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