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Jonathan P. Hicks, who covered big business and all levels of New York politics, including the campaigns of three New York City mayors, over 24 years as a reporter for The New York Times, died on Monday at his home in Brooklyn. He was 58.
The cause was pancreatic cancer, his wife, Christy DeBoe Hicks, said.
After leaving The Times in 2009, Mr. Hicks was a research fellow at a public policy institute, a columnist for The New York Amsterdam News and a co-founder of a scholarship for aspiring Liberian journalists.
Mr. Hicks, whose father, John H. Hicks, was the first black reporter at The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, joined The Times in 1985, assigned to the business news staff after stints at The Plain Dealer of Cleveland and The Arizona Daily Star. One of his first front-page articles, about black professionals leaving stable corporate jobs, ran on Nov. 29 that year.
“They say they are disenchanted with what they consider racial barriers blocking their success, or that they want to try their hand at operating a business, or both,” Mr. Hicks wrote.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/04/n...r-for-the-new-york-times-dies-at-58.html?_r=0
@3Rivers
Need the smiley from this. The face he made was classic.
The cause was pancreatic cancer, his wife, Christy DeBoe Hicks, said.
After leaving The Times in 2009, Mr. Hicks was a research fellow at a public policy institute, a columnist for The New York Amsterdam News and a co-founder of a scholarship for aspiring Liberian journalists.
Mr. Hicks, whose father, John H. Hicks, was the first black reporter at The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, joined The Times in 1985, assigned to the business news staff after stints at The Plain Dealer of Cleveland and The Arizona Daily Star. One of his first front-page articles, about black professionals leaving stable corporate jobs, ran on Nov. 29 that year.
“They say they are disenchanted with what they consider racial barriers blocking their success, or that they want to try their hand at operating a business, or both,” Mr. Hicks wrote.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/04/n...r-for-the-new-york-times-dies-at-58.html?_r=0
@3Rivers
Need the smiley from this. The face he made was classic.
