Stuart Hugh Loory (May 22, 1932 – January 16, 2015) was an American
journalist
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and
educator
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.
Early and education
Loory was born in
Wilson, Pennsylvania
Wilson is a borough in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. The population was 8,259 at the 2020 census. Wilson is located adjacent to the city of Easton and is part of the Lehigh Valley metropolitan area, which had a population of 861,899 and was ...
. He grew up in
Dover, New Jersey
Dover is a town in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. Located on the Rockaway River, Dover is about west of New York City and about west of Newark, New Jersey. As of the 2010 United States Census, the town's population was 18,157, , where his parents, Harry and Eve Loory, owned a large furniture store. Along with his younger brother, Melvyn, he attended prep school at
Blair Academy
Blair Academy is a coeducational, boarding and day school for students in high school. The school serves students from ninth through twelfth grades as well as a small post-graduate class. The school's campus is located on a campus in Blairs ...
. In 1954, Loory graduated from
Cornell University
Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...
, where he was a member of the
Quill and Dagger
Quill and Dagger is a senior honor society at Cornell University. It is often recognized as one of the most prominent societies of its type, along with Skull and Bones and Scroll and Key at Yale University. In 1929, ''The New York Times'' stated t ...
society and editor-in-chief of ''
The Cornell Daily Sun
''The Cornell Daily Sun'' is an independent daily newspaper published in Ithaca, New York by students at Cornell University and hired employees.
''The Sun'' features coverage of the university and its environs as well as stories from the Associa ...
''. After three years at the ''
Newark News
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'', he received a
Master's degree
A master's degree (from Latin ) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice. in journalism from
Columbia University
Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...
in 1958, and did postgraduate work in
Vienna, Austria
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Journalism career
Newspapers
Starting in 1959, he worked at the ''
New York Herald Tribune
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'' as a reporter, science writer (1961–63), a Washington correspondent (1963–64), and a Moscow-based foreign correspondent (1964–66). He worked briefly as a science writer for ''
The New York Times
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'' in 1966, then as a
White House
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correspondent for ''
Los Angeles Times
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'' (1967–71), earning a place on President Nixon's "Enemies List." In January 1971, after Loory wrote about taxpayer expenses involved with Nixon's
San Clemente, California
San Clemente (; Spanish for " St. Clement") is a city in Orange County, California. Located in the Orange Coast region of the South Coast of California, San Clemente's population was 64,293 in at the 2020 census. Situated roughly midway betwee ...
and
Key Biscayne, Florida
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Key Biscayne lies south of Miami Beach and east of Miami. The village is connected to Miami via the Rickenbacker Causeway, originally ...
vacation homes, Loory was summarily banned from the White House.
Broadcast
Loory was a fellow at
Woodrow Wilson Center
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, 1971–72, and in 1973 executive editor for
WNBC-TV
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news. He was the first Kiplinger Professor of Public Affairs Reporting at
Ohio State University
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, 1973–75. He became associate and, later, managing editor of ''
Chicago Sun-Times
The ''Chicago Sun-Times'' is a daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Since 2022, it is the flagship paper of Chicago Public Media, and has the second largest circulation among Chicago newspapers, after the ''Chicago T ...
'' in 1975.
In 1980, he joined the staff of
Turner Broadcasting Systems
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'
Cable News Network
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(as managing editor of the Washington bureau, 1980–82; Moscow bureau chief, 1983–86; senior correspondent, 1986; executive producer, 1987–90; editor-in-chief of ''
CNN World Report'', 1990–91; vice-president of CNN, 1990–95; executive vice-president, Turner International Broadcasting, Russia, 1993–97).
Academia
Since 1997, has been the first Lee Hills Chair in Free-Press Studies at the
University of Missouri
The University of Missouri (Mizzou, MU, or Missouri) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Universit ...
in
Columbia, Missouri
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. He was editor of ''Global Journalist,'' a quarterly magazine of interest to journalists in 127 countries and moderator of Global Journalist on
KBIA-FM radio, a
National Public Radio
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affiliate in
Columbia, Missouri
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. Loory retired from MU in the summer of 2010.
Books
*''The Secret Search for Peace in Vietnam'' (1968, with David Kraslow)
*''Defeated: Inside America's Military Machine'' (1973)
*''Seven Days That Shook the World: The Collapse of Soviet Communism'' (1991, with Ann Isme)
Family
Loory married Marjorie Dretel of
in 1955. They had three children: Joshua, Adam, and Miriam. Marjorie and Stuart divorced in the early 1990s. In the mid 90s Stuart met Nina Kudriavtseva, while hosting
Ted Turner
Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III (born November 19, 1938) is an American entrepreneur, television producer, media proprietor, and philanthropist. He founded the Cable News Network (CNN), the first 24-hour United States cable news, cable news ch ...
and
Jane Fonda
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in the Czar's Box of the
Bolshoi Theater
The Bolshoi Theatre ( rus, Большо́й теа́тр, r=Bol'shoy teatr, literally "Big Theater", p=bɐlʲˈʂoj tʲɪˈatər) is a historic theatre in Moscow, Russia, originally designed by architect Joseph Bové, which holds ballet and ope ...
. They were married in 1995 and now live in Brooklyn, NY. Nina travels back to Moscow many times a year to visit her family there (from a previous marriage), and to be the artistic director of Benois De La Danse, the international ballet awards. Stuart has 2 grandchildren from his first son Joshua and his wife Fern Hoppenstand: Matthew Loory and Ilana. From his daughter Miriam married to Daniel Krombach, he has: Leah, Joseph, Benjamin, and Jonathan. From his second marriage, he has two grandchildren: Kostya (Konstantin) and Areseniy (Arsen). Both of his Russian half grandchildren come from two marriages of his stepson, Lyoka (Leonid).
He died of lung cancer in
Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...
on January 16, 2015.
See also
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Afghanistanism
References
External links
Stuart Loory pagevia University of Missouri
Stuart H. Loory biographyvia Reporting Civil Rights
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American Heritage Center
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1932 births
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