For today, links to an obituary from the Associated Press and to commentary from ScheerPost; other articles are accessible from their names or initials below. (GAZA and UKRAINE entries for this date are HERE and HERE.) — MCM

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FROM JAN. 6  Joseph Lelyveld, former executive editor of the New York Times, dies at 86. From AP. NEW YORK — Joseph Lelyveld, a career journalist who rose from copy boy to foreign correspondent to executive editor at the New York Times and won a Pulitzer Prize for a nonfiction book, died Friday. He was 86. READ MORE . . .

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FROM APRIL 12  Requiem for the New York Times, by Chris Hedges | ScheerPost / Popular Resistance  I am sitting in the auditorium at the New York Times. I am here for the former executive editor they are honoring, Joe Lelyveld, who died earlier this year. READ MORE . . .