Burl Osborne (c. 1937 – August 15, 2012) was an American reporter and

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. He served on the board of directors for the

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for fourteen years, including a five-year stint as the board's chairman from 2002 until 2007. Osborne began his career as a

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for the Associated Press, based in

Bluefield, West Virginia Bluefield is a city in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 9,658 at the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Bluefield WV- VA micropolitan area, which had a population of 106,363 in 2020. Geography Bluefie ...

, for approximately twenty years. He then served as an Associated Press

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from 1977 to 1980. He also worked as a longtime employee and executive at Belo, a media company headquartered in

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, for twenty-five years. Osborne worked as the editor and then the publisher of the '' Dallas Morning News'' while at Belo. He would later become the president of Belo's publishing arm and a member of the board of directors before retiring in 2007 as a publisher emeritus. Osborne died of a brief illness at a hospital in Dallas on August 15, 2012, at the age of 75. He was survived by his wife, Betty, and a son, Jonathan.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Osborne, Burl 2012 deaths Place of birth missing Associated Press people American publishers (people) American newspaper publishers (people) People from Bluefield, West Virginia Year of birth uncertain