A great newspaper leader dies at 73

Mark Matassa • Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>A great newspaper leader dies at 73</h1>
                <h2><p>John Carroll, the subject of that headline, would not like it. Carroll had a rule against the use of superlatives in the news pages of the papers he edited, which included The Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun and Lexington Herald-Leader in Kentucky. He led the staffs of all three to</p></h2>
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              <p><time datetime="2025-02-04T05:00:00-08:00">Feb 6, 2018</time></p>
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            <p>John Carroll, the subject of that headline, would not like it. Carroll had a rule against the use of superlatives in the news pages of the papers he edited, which included <em>The Los Angeles Times</em>,<em> Baltimore Sun</em> and <em>Lexington Herald-Leader</em> in Kentucky. He led the staffs of all three to Pulitzer Prizes and, as <em>The Washington Post</em> notes in a warm obit, was “one of the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/john-s-carroll-edited-newspapers-in-baltimore-and-los-angeles-dies-at-73/2015/06/14/65bd5c1a-eac7-11e4-9a6a-c1ab95a0600b_story.html?postshare=6231434292737568&ref=avalancheghost.one">most distinguished and inspiring newspaper editors </a>of his time.”</p>
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John Carroll, the subject of that headline, would not like it. Carroll had a rule against the use of superlatives in the news pages of the papers he edited, which included The Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun and Lexington Herald-Leader in Kentucky. He led the staffs of all three to Pulitzer Prizes and, as The Washington Post notes in a warm obit, was “one of the most distinguished and inspiring newspaper editors of his time.”

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