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Article: ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR FOR SCRIPPS HOWARD DIES AT 53
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- Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current)
- Article date:
- January 15, 2003
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Roger D. Anderson, arts and entertainment editor at Scripps Howard
News Service, died Friday of complications of a rare lung disease at
Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He was 53.
An accomplished musician and poet, Anderson devoted his 17-year
newspaper and magazine career to chronicling popular culture, of
which he possessed an encyclopedic knowledge. He wrote free-lance
articles for alternative weeklies across the country.
For years, he wrote popular satirical celebrity news columns at
the Seattle Times newspaper and Scripps Howard News Service in
Washington, D.C., where he worked since 1993.
"Roger was kind and generous, traits that were reflected in his
writing, editing and mentoring ...