Sunday, March 21, 2010

Roy Steinfort, former AP radio executive, dies


Roy Steinfort, a veteran newsman and former vice president of The Associated Press who turned the agency's radio operations into a service providing news to millions of listeners worldwide, died Sunday at age 88. He died after a short battle with cancer. In a journalism career spanning some 40 years, Steinfort went from covering sports in his native Kentucky to running a weekly paper to chief of all broadcast operations for the AP. He retired from the world's largest and oldest news agency in 1986.

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