Journalism lost maybe the greatest reporter who ever lived yesterday when Pulitzer Prize-winner David Halberstam was killed in an auto accident in California. Halberstam was 73. The New York native and Harvard graduate earned his legendary reputation thanks to his reporting on such issues as civil rights and the Vietnam War, but he also authored some of the best sports books ever written, including "The Breaks of the Game," about the 1979 Portland Trail Blazers. Halberstam’s writing style wasn’t flashy, but his reporting was always amazing in its depth and scope. Sadly, Halberstam died while working on a book about professional football, an excerpt of which ran in Sports Illustrated earlier this year. He was an inspiration to other journalists, and will be missed. [New York Times] [Newsweek] [Pop Matters]
Jim Squires: "I think he was the best journalist of our times." [Tennessean]
