Kevin Klose, who reported behind the Iron Curtain and led NPR, dies at 85

After 25 years at The Washington Post, he became a top executive in public broadcasting, helping secure a historic $200 million donation for NPR

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Kevin Klose, a longtime Washington Post journalist who reported from behind the Iron Curtain and later turned to public broadcasting, helping lead NPR into a new era of financial independence while serving for about a decade as the organization’s president and CEO, died Wednesday at a memory care center in D.C. He was 85.

The cause was complications from Alzheimer’s disease, said his wife, Deborah Ashford.

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