David Nyhan, 64, Journalist, Is Dead
NY Times
David Nyhan, a former political reporter, editor and influential columnist for The Boston Globe, died on Sunday at his home in Brookline, Mass. He was 64.
The apparent cause was a heart attack, said his wife, Olivia. Mr. Nyhan had collapsed after shoveling snow.
Mr. Nyhan, who spent 32 years at The Globe, retired from the paper in 2001. After that, he wrote a twice-weekly column for The Eagle-Tribune Company, which publishes four daily newspapers in New England.
Well connected in Boston political circles and beyond - he was a pallbearer at the funeral in 1994 of Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., the former speaker of the House - Mr. Nyhan remained a populist of liberal social conscience. In a 2001 interview with The Globe, Senator Edward M. Kennedy called him “closer to the grass roots than almost any politician.”
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