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Alex Traub

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Senior News Assistant, Obituaries at The New York Times

Newspaper immortalizer every Sunday @nytobits, writing a book about Bob Silvers and his world the rest of the time

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  • 5 days ago | editorandpublisher.com | Alex Traub

    Posted Monday, June 23, 2025 10:57 am Rod Nordland, a reporter who for four decades covered most of the world’s major wars for The New York Times and other publications, before turning his journalistic attention to his own life after a fatal cancer diagnosis, died on Wednesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 75. The cause was glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer, his wife, Leila Segal, said. Click here to read more....

  • 5 days ago | nytimes.com | Alex Traub

    Frederick W. Smith, who bet everything he had on a plan to revolutionize freight transport, courting disaster early on but ultimately winning vindication in the form of power in Washington, billions in personal wealth and changes in how people all over the world send and receive goods, died on Saturday. He was 80. His death was announced by FedEx in a statement that did not provide further details. FedEx was conceived in a paper that Mr. Smith wrote as a Yale University undergraduate in 1965.

  • 5 days ago | nytimes.com | Alex Traub

    Rod Nordland, a reporter who for four decades covered most of the world’s major wars for The New York Times and other publications, before turning his journalistic attention to his own life after a fatal cancer diagnosis, died on Wednesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 75. The cause was glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer, his wife, Leila Segal, said.

  • 3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Alex Traub

    A Marxist-turned-Catholic who denounced individualism, he provoked and inspired fellow thinkers and gained a degree of popularity unusual for a moral philosopher.

  • 1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Alex Traub

    In the early 1950s, Andy Cassell, a 9-year-old boy on the Isle of Wight in England, read about the Kon-Tiki expedition, Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl’s voyage across the Pacific Ocean on a primitive raft. Andy began to dream of sailing, although it seemed an unlikely prospect: He had been born with malformed hips and no legs. Still, he built a raft with pine logs he found on the beach, and his grandmother helped by fashioning a sail from a tablecloth and a mast from a clothesline pole.

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RT @jaynordlinger: "Mr. Hutchins was part of the stampede" -- nice line, @alexetraub. https://t.co/JUdsvkGTCh

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RT @WhitStillman: @SpiesVespers Profound thanks! What a beautiful obit by former @thecrimson editor @alexetraub whom we'll now claim as a…

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2 May 25

RT @WhitStillman: R.I.P. Bobby Torre, the Soul of J.G. Melon - A Man & an Obit for the Ages. Kudos to @alexetraub for capturing this wonder…