Former Post-Dispatch editor killed in crash

[SF_Express]

http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070105/NEWS18/701050485&oaso=news.rgj.com/breakingnews

Cole Campbell, who was currently journalism dean at the University of Nevada.

 

[imjustagirl2]

From an e-mail I received...

Catherine Werner, Cole's widow, has sent along this information regarding memorials. Also here is a link to the New York Times obit: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/08/business/media/08campbell.html

Cole Campbell Memorial Fund
We hope to have the journalism section or a reading room named for Cole at the new UNR Knowledge Center. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the following.
Checks can be made out to the University of Nevada, Reno Foundation and sent to:
University of Nevada, Reno Foundation
Cole Campbell Memorial Fund
Mail Stop 162
Reno, Nevada 89557

 

[Mystery_Meat]

Shows you how plugged in I am to the journalism world: I didn't know he was at Nevada until someone e-mailed me the obit. He was also at the Virginian-Pilot for a few years before moving to St. Louis. Never met him, but heard good things. A shame, and younger than I would have guessed too.