[Updated at 2:18 p.m. ET with confirmation from paper.]
Cincinnati Enquirer reporter Barry Horstman, 60, whose career spanned nearly four decades in and out of the southern Ohio city, died today after collapsing in the newsroom; the cause of death is unknown, the paper is now reporting.
Horstman spent half his journalism career in Cincinnati, including a stint at since-shuttered Cincinnati Post, where he helped veteran reporters transition to computers from typewriters.
“He was a wonderful man, wonderful citizen and wonderful newspaperman,” former Ohio Gov. John “Jack” Gilligan told the paper. “He will be sorely missed in all of those roles in this town.”
My original post: A reporter collapsed this morning in The Cincinnati Enquirer's newsroom, according to one of my readers, and later died. On Twitter, multiple posters are saying the reporter is Barry Horstman.
"He was very well known around town, and he had been complaining for sometime about the stress and the workload at the paper," my reader says. "There are lots of tears in the newsroom."
Related: Here's Horstman's Twitter feed, and his Facebook page.
Cincinnati Enquirer reporter Barry Horstman, 60, whose career spanned nearly four decades in and out of the southern Ohio city, died today after collapsing in the newsroom; the cause of death is unknown, the paper is now reporting.
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“He was a wonderful man, wonderful citizen and wonderful newspaperman,” former Ohio Gov. John “Jack” Gilligan told the paper. “He will be sorely missed in all of those roles in this town.”
"He was very well known around town, and he had been complaining for sometime about the stress and the workload at the paper," my reader says. "There are lots of tears in the newsroom."
I'm ill. Cincy Enquirer reporter @barryhorstman, friend and colleague at Cincy Post, died suddenly this AM. One of the best. -- 30 --
— Randy Ludlow (@RandyLudlow) February 25, 2013
Related: Here's Horstman's Twitter feed, and his Facebook page.
Reporter Horstman collapses in newsroom, dies
ReplyDeletehttp://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130225/NEWS0104/302250116/Reporter-Horstman-collapses-newsroom-dies
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ReplyDeleteIt's terrible but true.
DeleteSo true, 3:26.
DeleteThe Napoleonic editor at my former Gannett rag pushed one sports reporter so hard that his heart gave out.
He was in his early 50s.
Really haters? You use a tragedy like this to spread your venom? Shame on you.
DeleteYeah, they suck. Tiny pieces of shit, they are.
DeleteUnfortunately, what has been said about the stressloads at The Enquirer and other newspapers is true. Barry Horstman was one of the hardest working newspapermen anywhere. He was popular with coworkers because of his wonderful personality, his wit and his hard work. He also was popular with the likes of Carolyn Washburn, who praised him in print as one of her favorite colleagues ever. That's because at The Enquirer and elsewhere, he smiled and good-naturedly bore the ceaseless demands of some he had to work for. Washburn is an infamous micromanager who lacks solid journalistic chops. While Horstman seldom complained about her and her chosen editors, his obvious stress levels, like those around him, told a different story.
DeleteMy heart goes out to his colleagues and family.
ReplyDeleteDeepest sympathies to his family and friends.
ReplyDeleteThe bitters now have a flag to rally behind. Can they finally accomplish something, or will they fail again, just as they have so often?
ReplyDeleteHmmm, sounds like you're using this tragedy to plant your own "rally flag" ...
Delete7:56, the "I know I am, but what are you?" response has no effect.
DeleteHe was a good hard working man godspeed
ReplyDeleteBringing up stress is not being bitter or being a hater. I am so sorry to see a good and talented man gone far too soon. I feel bad for him and colleagues who work in a toxic place. We'll see how the company treats his wife and family.
ReplyDelete5:11 of course it is. Don't be naive
DeleteDon't fool yourself 8:10. In Shreveport the stress levels are high like everywhere else. Gannett is a toxic place to work. It never used to be but it is now.
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to the post about the other editor who died? I think it mentioned another site, but it was a good tribute.
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