David Carr: New York Times writer died from lung cancer complications
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Version 0 of 1. The New York Times media columnist David Carr died of complications from metastatic lung cancer, the city’s medical authorities have said. Julie Bolcer, a spokeswoman for the New York City medical examiner’s office, said heart disease was a contributing cause of death. Carr collapsed at the newspaper’s headquarters and died on Thursday. He was 58. Related: David Carr, New York Times columnist, dies suddenly after collapsing in office He wrote the Media Equation column for the Times and penned a memoir about his fight with drug addiction. He was lauded as “the finest media reporter of his generation” by Dean Baquet, executive editor of the Times. In 2011 he was a central figure in the documentary Page One: Inside the New York Times. Carr’s 2008 memoir The Night of the Gun traces his rise from cocaine addict to single father raising twin girls to sobered-up media columnist for the Times. |