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PROLIFIC journalist Howard Fineman, whose career spanned nearly five decades has died at the age of 75.
Fineman’s wife, Amy Nathan, confirmed the sad news on Wednesday, writing on X, formerly known as Twitter that Fineman had died following a battle with pancreatic cancer.
Iconic reporter, Howard Fineman, has died following a battle with cancer[/caption]
Fineman’s wife, Amy Nathan, said he died on Tuesday night[/caption]
“I am heartbroken to share my brilliant and extraordinary husband passed away late last night surrounded by those he loved most, his family,” Nathan wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
“He valiantly battled pancreatic cancer for 2 years. He couldn’t have been adored more.
“The world was a better place because he lived in it and wrote about it.”
Fineman covered nine presidential campaigns as a reporter, writer, and analyst, leading the political coverage at Newsweek for 30 years.
His career began in the late 1960s at Colgate Univerity in Hamilton, New York, as a reporter and later editor-in-chief of The Colgate Marron student paper.
Following his graduation, Fineman mentored many young journalists who followed in his footsteps.
“If I am any guide — and today I am supposed to be — this lovely college will be a constant star, a steady torchlight, as influential as family, faith or profession,” he said during Colgate’s 2011 commencement speech.
“Friends I made here remain my friends. My great teachers still guide me through the years. The town of Hamilton and its genial people, the beauty of the campus, and the Chenango Valley, forever remind me of what is best about our country and its history.”
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1948, Fineman was raised in the Jewish community of Squirrel Hill, which he described as “very large and very wonderful.”
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