This week marked the death of James Hoge Jr., the legendary newsman who rose from a night police reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times in 1959 to the paper’s editor and publisher within a decade.
He steered the Sun-Times — and later the New York Daily News — at a time when the U.S. faced some of our most challenging public conflicts, from civil rights protests, wide and growing public skepticism over a war in Southeast Asia, and corruption and abuse of power by government leaders that would lead to the resignation of a president and a wave of public cynicism that lingers today.
