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Article: TOP EDITOR OF DES MOINES REGISTER DIES
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- United Press International
- Article date:
- August 27, 2004
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United Press International
08-27-2004
Top editor of Des Moines Register dies
DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug 27, 2004 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Kenneth MacDonald, an editor and publisher who helped guide the Des Moines (Iowa) Register for a half century, has died while recovering from a stroke. He was 98.
MacDonald died in West Des Moines, the Register reported Friday.
He was with the Register for 50 years, including 40 years as a top news executive, retiring in 1977.
Under MacDonald, 12 staff members won Pulitzer prizes, and at one point in the 1970s only one paper, the New York Times, owned more Pulitzers for national reporting than did the Register.
MacDonald was born and raised in ...
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