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Robert McGruder, Detroit Free Press top editor, dies of cancer at 60.
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Detroit Free Press (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune NewsService)
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April 12, 2002
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2002 Detroit Free Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Byline: (EDITORS: Corrects reporter's name. Heath J Meriwether is cq. No period (".") af
By Bill McGraw
DETROIT _ Detroit Free Press Executive Editor Robert G. McGruder, who overcame childhood polio and poverty to become a nationally influential journalist, died Friday evening in Detroit after a long illness. He was 60.
McGruder, widely praised as a champion of newsroom diversity, had fought cancer for 20 months. He told his staff in September 2000 that doctors had diagnosed the disease; it already had spread through his bones.
He confronted the illness with his usual quiet determination. During months of chemotherapy treatment, he worked in his glass-walled ...
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