Mediagazer: McCandlish Phillips, Longtime Times Reporter With Flair, Dies at 85 (Margalit Fox/New York Times)

2:10 PM ET, April 9, 2013

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Margalit Fox / New York Times:

McCandlish Phillips, Longtime Times Reporter With Flair, Dies at 85 — McCandlish Phillips, a reporter considered one of the finest stylists on The New York Times, who wrote one of the most famous articles in the newspaper's history — exposing the Orthodox Jewish background …

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

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Joshua Gillin / Poynter:
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