Obituaries

Doug Wong, a Washington Post journalist who edited breaking news stories on a wide array of subjects including politics, natural disasters, wars and criminal justice, died Dec. 3 at a hotel in Orlando while on vacation. He was 58 and a District resident. A spokeswoman for the Orange County (Fla.)

Medical Examiner’s Office said the cause was hypertensive cardiovascular disease.

Prominent American soccer writer Grant Wahl died Dec. 9 while covering the World Cup in Qatar. Wahl chronicled the rise of the game for Sports Illustrated for years before moving to Substack. Wahl attended the quarterfinal match between Argentina and the Netherlands in Lusail, where he collapsed in his seat at the start of extra time. A number of reporters called for help, and paramedics arrived immediately, treating

Wahl for several minutes on-site, said Washington Post reporter Steven Goff, who also was covering the match.

Lee Lorenz, retired cartoonist and cartoon editor at The New Yorker, died Dec. 8 at his home in Norwalk, Connecticut. He was 90. Lorenz joined The New Yorker in 1958. He was its art editor — only the second one since the magazine was founded in 1925 — from 1973 to 1993 and its cartoon editor from 1973 to 1997.

Stephen F. Bentley, former co-publisher of The Lawton (Oklahoma) Constitution, died

Nov. 4. Bentley, age 73, grew up in the newspaper business and became associate publisher from 1973 to 1990. He was named co-publisher along with his brother, Donald Shepler Bentley, from 1990 to 2012. They were the fourth generation to own the newspaper.

Michael J. Gerson, who composed many of George W. Bush’s signature addresses, and later, as a writer for The Washington Post, took a stand against Donald J. Trump., died Nov. 17 in Washington. He was 58.

Gary Martin, the Washington bureau chief for the Las Vegas Review-journal, was found dead Nov. 10 in his room at Circa Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. He was 64. Martin, who reported on Congress, was in town to cover the midterm elections. Las Vegas police said it appears Martin died of natural causes.

Retired Las Vegas correspondent Robert Macy, who wrote thousands of stories about entertainment, crime and sports in Sin City over the course of two decades for The Associated Press, has died. He was 85. Macy died Nov. 11 in hospice in Las Vegas following a brief illness, his family said. After graduating from the University of Kansas with a degree in journalism in 1959, Macy spent the next decade working in television, in public relations and for newspapers.

Bruce Christensen, who led PBS from the mid-1980s to the early ’90s amid attacks on public TV for airing controversial documentaries, died Nov. 18 at his home in Orem, Utah. He was 79. Christensen fell several months ago and had been in and out of the hospital, according to his family.

Helicopter pilot Chip Tayag and meteorologist Jason Myers, who worked for North Carolina television station WBTV, died Nov. 22 when their news helicopter crashed along a Charlotte-area interstate. Police praised the pilot for heroically avoiding the roadway in his final moments.

Fred Hickman, who helped launch CNN Sports and YES Network, has died. Hickman, who turned 66 on

Oct. 16, died peacefully in the hospital after battling liver cancer, according to his widow Sheila.