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Max Frankel, Top Times Editor Who Led a Newspaper in Transition, Dies at 94

The New York Times · Robert D. McFadden · last updated
Max Frankel, who fled Nazi Germany as a boy and rose to pinnacles of American journalism as a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for The New York Times and later as its executive editor during eight years of changing fortunes and technology, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan. He was 94.
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