US EditionMax Frankel, former New York Times top editor, dies at 94
- Max Frankel, former executive editor of The New York Times, died at 94 in his New York City home, as reported by the newspaper.
- He served as executive editor from 1986 to 1994, overseeing increased coverage of city and sports news, according to a Times obituary.
- Frankel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for international reporting on President Richard Nixon's trip to China, chronicling the lives of everyday Chinese.
- He joined The Times in 1957 and pushed for diverse voices in the newsroom during his tenure.
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Max Frankel, 94, New York Times executive editor
Max Frankel, who fled Nazi Germany as a boy and rose to pinnacles of American journalism as a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for The New York Times and later as its executive editor during eight years of changing fortunes and technology,…
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Max Frankel, Jewish New York Times executive editor who fled the Nazis, dies at 94
(JTA) — Max Frankel, the former executive editor of The New York Times who fled the Nazis as a child, died at 94. Frankel died Sunday at his Manhattan home, according to an obituary in the Times. Frankel began working at the Times at age 19 as the Columbia University campus correspondent and spent more than 40 years at the paper as a reporter, editor and columnist. He ran The Times from 1986 to 1994. His career at the paper began less than a dec…
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