{{Short description|American journalist and educator}} {{more footnotes needed|date=November 2012}} [[File:Stuart Loory.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Loory in 2009]] '''Stuart Hugh Loory''' (May 22, 1932 – January 16, 2015) was an American [[journalist]] and [[educator]].
==Early and education== Loory was born in [[Wilson, Pennsylvania]], on May 22, 1932. He grew up in [[Dover, New Jersey]], where his parents, Harry and Eve Loory, owned a large furniture store. Along with his younger brother, Melvyn, he attended prep school at [[Blair Academy]]. In 1954, Loory graduated from [[Cornell University]], where he was a member of the [[Quill and Dagger]] society and editor-in-chief of ''[[The Cornell Daily Sun]]''. After three years at the ''[[Newark Evening News|Newark News]]'', he received a [[Master's degree]] in journalism from [[Columbia University]] in 1958, and did postgraduate work in [[Vienna]], Austria.
==Career== ===Newspaper journalism=== Starting in 1959, he worked at the ''[[New York Herald Tribune]]'' as a reporter, science writer (1961–63), a Washington correspondent (1963–64), and a Moscow-based foreign correspondent (1964–66). He worked briefly as a science writer for ''[[The New York Times]]'' in 1966, then as a [[White House]] correspondent for ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' (1967–71), earning a place on President Nixon's "Enemies List." In 1968, Lorry and "David Kraslow of the Washington Bureau of the ''Los Angeles Times'' won the [[Raymond Clapper Memorial Award]] for the best Washington correspondent of the year."<ref>{{cite news|title=Two Coast Newsmen Win Raymond Clapper Award|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/05/04/88985691.html?pageNumber=44|date=May 4, 1969|page=44}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Nieman Reports|date=June 1969|page=23|title=1962|url=https://niemanreports.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Summer-1969_150.pdf|publisher=[[Nieman Foundation for Journalism]]}}</ref>
In January 1971, after Loory wrote about taxpayer expenses involved with Nixon's [[San Clemente, California]] and [[Key Biscayne, Florida]] vacation homes, Loory was summarily banned from the White House.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://longreads.com/2018/11/08/when-richard-nixon-declared-war-on-the-media/|title=When Richard Nixon Declared War on the Media|date=8 November 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0zIizbbHQTgC&q=Stuart+Loory+Nixon+San+Clemente&pg=PA12 |title = Richard Nixon, Watergate, and the Press: A Historical Retrospective|isbn = 9780275979157|last1 = Liebovich|first1 = Louis|year = 2003| publisher=Bloomsbury Academic }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/08/nixons-revenge-his-media-strategy-triumphs-40-years-after-resignation/375274/|title = Nixon is Gone, but His Media Strategy Lives on|website = [[The Atlantic]]|date = 4 August 2014}}</ref>
===Broadcast journalism=== Loory was a fellow at [[Woodrow Wilson Center]], 1971–72, and in 1973 executive editor for [[WNBC-TV]] news. He was the first Kiplinger Professor of Public Affairs Reporting at [[Ohio State University]]<!--Wikipedians do not use "The" as part of Ohio State's name; it is considered a marketing gimmick, and routinely deleted.-->, 1973–75. He became associate and, later, managing editor of ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' in 1975.
In 1980, he joined the staff of [[Turner Broadcasting Systems]]' [[Cable News Network]] (as managing editor of the Washington bureau, 1980–82; Moscow bureau chief, 1983–86; senior correspondent, 1986; executive producer, 1987–90; editor-in-chief of ''[[CNN World Report]]'', 1990–91; vice-president of CNN, 1990–95; executive vice-president, Turner International Broadcasting, Russia, 1993–97).
===Academia=== Since 1997, has been the first Lee Hills Chair in Free-Press Studies at the [[University of Missouri]] in [[Columbia, Missouri]]. He was editor of ''Global Journalist,'' a quarterly magazine of interest to journalists in 127 countries and moderator of Global Journalist on [[KBIA|KBIA-FM]] radio, a [[National Public Radio]] affiliate in [[Columbia, Missouri]]. Loory retired from MU in the summer of 2010.
==Books==
*''The Secret Search for Peace in Vietnam'' (1968, with David Kraslow) *''Defeated: Inside America's Military Machine'' (1973) *''Seven Days That Shook the World: The Collapse of Soviet Communism'' (1991, with Ann Isme)
==Personal life== Loory married Marjorie Dretel of [[Morristown, New Jersey]] in 1955 with whom he had three children: Joshua, Adam, and Miriam. They divorced in the early 1990s.
In the mid-1990s, Stuart met Nina Kudriavtseva while hosting [[Ted Turner]] and [[Jane Fonda]] in the Czar's Box at [[Bolshoi Theatre]]. They married in 1995 and now live in [[Brooklyn]], New York City. Nina travels to [[Moscow]] many times a year to visit her family there from a previous marriage, and as artistic director of Benois De La Danse, the international ballet awards. Stuart has two grandchildren from his first son Joshua and his wife Fern Hoppenstand: Matthew Loory and Ilana. From his daughter Miriam, married to Daniel Krombach, he has: Leah, Joseph, Benjamin, and Jonathan. From his second marriage, he has two grandchildren: Kostya (Konstantin) and Areseniy (Arsen). Both of his Russian half grandchildren come from two marriages of his stepson, Lyoka (Leonid).
==Death== On January 16, 2015, Loory died of [[lung cancer]] in Brooklyn.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/stuart-loory-globe-trotting-journalist-and-cnn-bureau-chief-dies-at-82/2015/01/16/e0419bb4-9da0-11e4-a7ee-526210d665b4_story.html |title=Stuart Loory, globe-trotting journalist and CNN executive, dies at 82 |date=2015-01-17 |author1=Adam Bernstein |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |place=Washington, D.C. |issn=0190-8286 |oclc=1330888409}}</ref>
==See also==
* [[Afghanistanism]]
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20060419182004/http://journalism.missouri.edu/faculty/stuart-loory.html Stuart Loory page] via University of Missouri *[http://reportingcivilrights.org/authors/bio.jsp?authorId=46 Stuart H. Loory biography] via Reporting Civil Rights *{{C-SPAN|1022517}} * [https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv734419?q=7634 Stuart H. Loory papers] are archived at the [[American Heritage Center]].
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