Rick Edmonds, Poynter’s media business analyst, passed away suddenly over the weekend. He was 78.
Rick started his career as an assistant to the legendary New York Times journalist James Reston. He went on to be a reporter and editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. He then spent 11 years with the St. Petersburg Times in various editor and publisher roles, including two years as managing editor of the paper’s Tampa edition.
Rick eventually moved to Poynter and became among the industry’s best-known and most respected analysts on the economics of journalism.
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