R. Bruce Dold, Chicago Tribune publisher and Pulitzer winner, dies at 70

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R. Bruce Dold, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at The Chicago Tribune who rose to become editor in chief and publisher and who, in 2008, steered its center-right editorial page to support Barack Obama, in the paper’s first-ever endorsement of a Democrat for president, died on Dec. 3 in Winnetka, Illinois. He was 70.

His death, at the home of his daughter Kristen Dold, was from esophageal cancer, his daughter Megan Dold said.

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