From the Weekly Standard:

It's my sad duty to report that our good friend and valued contributor Dean Barnett passed away today. He was a remarkable man--principled, witty, and to all of us, a model of grace and courage. We mourn his passing and cherish his memory.

-William Kristol

Barnett created SoxBlog, blogged on Hugh Hewitt's website and drove Mitt Romney around the 1994 Seante campaign.

Barnett suffered from cystic fibrosis. He was 41.

Other In Memoriams:

Karen Timmons, 58; Editor Planned Scripps Coverage

Former Inquirer reporter Carol Horner

From DCRTV:

Bill Headline, who was CNN's first DC bureau chief, has passed away. "Bill was one of the legends of Washington journalism, having carved out a successful career in the broadcast network world before coming to the cable upstart CNN," says David Bohrman, CNN's current DC bureau chief in a memo to staff. "Bill ran the DC operation in two locations here in town, and is responsible for hiring many of the great people who work here today."

September 21: Nancy Hicks Maynard, one of the first black female reporters at the New York Times and once the publisher of The Oakland Tribune, dies.

September 22: The New York Times publishes its obituary.

September 25: The Gray Lady admits that "An obituary on Tuesday about Nancy Hicks Maynard, a newspaper publisher and journalism educator, included a number of errors."

October 9: The Gray Lady admits that it had erred again: "An obituary on Sept. 23 about Nancy Hicks Maynard, a newspaper publisher and journalism educator, attributed an erroneous distinction to her, and a correction in this space on Sept. 25 repeated the error. She was one of the first black women to become a reporter at The New York Times, but not the first; at least one, Bernadette Carey, a reporter in society news, preceded her."

From Newsweek:

Osborn Elliott, a giant of American journalism and a tireless crusader for revitalizing America's cities, died on Sunday in New York City. He was 83.

The cause was complications from cancer, his family said.

As NEWSWEEK's top editor in the 1960s and 1970s, Elliott transformed a magazine that had been a faint rival of Time into a nimble competitor. While Time was slow to evolve from the conservative path laid down by its founder Henry Luce, NEWSWEEK under Elliott pursued an ambitious, liberal agenda that gave the magazine a sharper identity and sense of mission. For those accomplishments, Elliott, known to his friends as "Oz," was among the first to be voted into the American Society of Magazine Editors' Hall of Fame. He also received the Frederick Douglass Award from the New York Urban League for his work in civil rights.

From the Boston Globe:

David A. Eisenstadt, a former Washington correspondent for Hearst Newspapers, died in a car accident Aug. 26 in Lancaster, Calif. He was 46.

Mr. Eisenstadt had reported on national security issues for the Hearst Washington bureau in 1993-1994. He worked previously as a journalist at the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune, Defense Daily, and Phillips Publishing, and later reported for the Washington bureau of the New York Daily News.

From the Washington Post:

Charles A. Perlik Jr., 84, who as president of the Newspaper Guild from 1969 to 1987 pushed the union to endorse presidential candidates and worked to end discrimination in the news industry, died Sept. 17 of pulmonary failure at Inova Fairfax Hospital.

He was a Falls Church resident before moving to a Springfield retirement community in recent years.

Mr. Perlik was secretary-treasurer of the Newspaper Guild for 14 years before becoming its longest-serving president. During his final years in office, he helped lead the guild into a merger with the larger and more powerful Communications Workers of America. The guild now represents more than 33,000 reporters, editors and photographers nationwide.

From the Washington Post:

Robert Bjarne "Barney" Camfiord, 77, a former director of CBS news programs, died Aug. 5 at Inova Fairfax Hospital. He had emphysema.

Mr. Camfiord began his career with CBS-TV in 1955 in New York as a film editor. In 1963, he came to the CBS Washington bureau, where he directed "Face the Nation" and the "CBS Morning News." He also directed Washington segments of the "CBS Evening News."

Our thoughts go out to the mother of Dana Milbank, who passed away on Sunday.