R.I.P. Liz Donovan
From one of my listservs: Liz Donovan, retired researcher for the Miami Herald -- and an assistant to Woodstein during Watergate when she was at the Washington Post -- has died of cancer. (She had retired to Murphy, N.C.)
I knew her only online, but some of her thoughts informed some of what we did during the early days of our Town Square initiative. A former co-worker at the Herald, Tim Henderson, had this to say:
A stellar and modest and laser-sharp mind in the tradition of Katherine Hepburn in Desk Set, a film she loved, ironically about an early attempt to computerize research. Liz embraced computers and saw what they could do for newspapers, but also realized they were no substitute for an inquiring and skeptical mind. Today, Heaven has all the facts.I wish I could have known her better.
