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Robert McGruder, Detroit Free Press top editor, dies of cancer at 60.

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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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