Maxwell McCrohon, last HerEx editor

The editor-in-chief in 1989 when the Herald Examiner folded died this week of cancer at age 76. His career included stints as managing editor of Chicago Today and the Chicago Tribune, which carries an obituary today calling the Austalian-born McCrohon "a journalistic visionary whose innovations in design, story-packaging and feature writing changed the face of Chicago journalism and had a wide impact throughout the U.S. newspaper industry."