David Carr Helped Define Journalism for a Whole Generation

Detail of the cover for The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life
I had just finished up an event at the downtown library last night and I turned my phone on and somehow David Carr was dead. The media world is right now full of touching memories of the man, and you should read as many as you can, because he was the real deal. I interviewed him onstage at the Douglass-Truth branch of the Seattle library back in 2008, when I first started as The