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Samples of Linda Deutsch’s Reporting on 50 Years of Sensational Trials

Covering some of America’s most sensational trials, she produced urgent, pithy “ledes” in the best tradition of wire-service reporting. Here’s a sampler.

By Trip Gabriel

Associated Press Deaths (Obituaries) Deutsch, Linda (Journalist) Los Angeles (Calif) News and News Media

Linda Deutsch, The A.P.’s Dean of Courtroom Reporting, Dies at 80

Covering notorious trials, she offered readers an unvarnished view of the sordid side of celebrity, told through many of the country’s most riveting legal dramas.

By Trip Gabriel

Associated Press Athletics and Sports Deaths (Obituaries) Photography Willens, Kathy

Kathy Willens, Photojournalist Seemingly Everywhere, Is Dead at 74

Guided by a keen sense of timing, she covered wars, sports, riots, politics and more for The A.P. in the ’70s, when few women worked as news photographers.

By Trip Gabriel

Assassinations and Attempted Assassinations Associated Press Deaths (Obituaries) Edmonds, Ron Hinckley, John W Jr News and News Media Nineteen Hundred Eighties Photography Reagan, Ronald Wilson

Ron Edmonds, 77, Whose Camera Captured the Shooting of Reagan, Dies

Working for The Associated Press, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his sequence of photos showing the president being struck by a bullet while three others fell wounded.

By Richard Sandomir