Renowned Journalist Ben Bagdikian Dies at Age 96

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Ben H. Bagdikian, a renowned journalist, newspaper executive, media critic and professor who helped publish the Pentagon Papers and for decades was a passionate voice for journalistic integrity, has died. He was 96.
His wife, Marlene Griffith Bagdikian, says he died Friday morning at his home in Berkeley.
His five-decade career in journalism was adventurous. In the 1950s he covered the civil rights struggle, including the Little Rock school integration crisis, and r