Des Moines | Veteran journalist Schorr dies at 93

The New York Times reports:

Daniel Schorr (left), whose aggressive reporting over 70 years as a respected broadcast and print journalist brought him into conflict with censors, the Nixon administration and network superiors, died today in Washington. He was 93.

Around the time he was 60, the NYT says, "The Des Moines Register and Tribune engaged him to write a column, but it was apparently not provocative enough, and after two years the paper’s syndicate did not renew his contract."

That would have been around 1977, before Gannett bought the surviving Register, in 1985.