# Stuart Loory

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American journalist and educator

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**Stuart Hugh Loory** (May 22, 1932 – January 16, 2015) was an American [journalist](/source/Journalist) and [educator](/source/Educator).

## Early and education

Loory was born in [Wilson, Pennsylvania](/source/Wilson%2C_Pennsylvania), on May 22, 1932. He grew up in [Dover, New Jersey](/source/Dover%2C_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](/source/Blair_Academy). In 1954, Loory graduated from [Cornell University](/source/Cornell_University), where he was a member of the [Quill and Dagger](/source/Quill_and_Dagger) society and editor-in-chief of *[The Cornell Daily Sun](/source/The_Cornell_Daily_Sun)*. After three years at the *[Newark News](/source/Newark_Evening_News)*, he received a [Master's degree](/source/Master's_degree) in journalism from [Columbia University](/source/Columbia_University) in 1958, and did postgraduate work in [Vienna](/source/Vienna), Austria.

## Career

### Newspaper journalism

Starting in 1959, he worked at the *[New York Herald Tribune](/source/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](/source/The_New_York_Times)* in 1966, then as a [White House](/source/White_House) correspondent for *[Los Angeles Times](/source/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](/source/Raymond_Clapper_Memorial_Award) for the best Washington correspondent of the year."[1][2]

In January 1971, after Loory wrote about taxpayer expenses involved with Nixon's [San Clemente, California](/source/San_Clemente%2C_California) and [Key Biscayne, Florida](/source/Key_Biscayne%2C_Florida) vacation homes, Loory was summarily banned from the White House.[3][4][5]

### Broadcast journalism

Loory was a fellow at [Woodrow Wilson Center](/source/Woodrow_Wilson_Center), 1971–72, and in 1973 executive editor for [WNBC-TV](/source/WNBC-TV) news. He was the first Kiplinger Professor of Public Affairs Reporting at [Ohio State University](/source/Ohio_State_University), 1973–75. He became associate and, later, managing editor of *[Chicago Sun-Times](/source/Chicago_Sun-Times)* in 1975.

In 1980, he joined the staff of [Turner Broadcasting Systems](/source/Turner_Broadcasting_Systems)' [Cable News Network](/source/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](/source/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](/source/University_of_Missouri) in [Columbia, Missouri](/source/Columbia%2C_Missouri). He was editor of *Global Journalist,* a quarterly magazine of interest to journalists in 127 countries and moderator of Global Journalist on [KBIA-FM](/source/KBIA) radio, a [National Public Radio](/source/National_Public_Radio) affiliate in [Columbia, Missouri](/source/Columbia%2C_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](/source/Morristown%2C_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](/source/Ted_Turner) and [Jane Fonda](/source/Jane_Fonda) in the Czar's Box at [Bolshoi Theatre](/source/Bolshoi_Theatre). They married in 1995 and now live in [Brooklyn](/source/Brooklyn), New York City. Nina travels to [Moscow](/source/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](/source/Lung_cancer) in Brooklyn.[6]

## See also

- [Afghanistanism](/source/Afghanistanism)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Two Coast Newsmen Win Raymond Clapper Award"](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/05/04/88985691.html?pageNumber=44). *[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)*. May 4, 1969. p. 44.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["1962"](https://niemanreports.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Summer-1969_150.pdf) (PDF). *Nieman Reports*. [Nieman Foundation for Journalism](/source/Nieman_Foundation_for_Journalism). June 1969. p. 23.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["When Richard Nixon Declared War on the Media"](https://longreads.com/2018/11/08/when-richard-nixon-declared-war-on-the-media/). 8 November 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Liebovich, Louis (2003). [*Richard Nixon, Watergate, and the Press: A Historical Retrospective*](https://books.google.com/books?id=0zIizbbHQTgC&q=Stuart+Loory+Nixon+San+Clemente&pg=PA12). Bloomsbury Academic. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780275979157](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780275979157).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Nixon is Gone, but His Media Strategy Lives on"](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/08/nixons-revenge-his-media-strategy-triumphs-40-years-after-resignation/375274/). *[The Atlantic](/source/The_Atlantic)*. 4 August 2014.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Adam Bernstein (2015-01-17). ["Stuart Loory, globe-trotting journalist and CNN executive, dies at 82"](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). *[The Washington Post](/source/The_Washington_Post)*. Washington, D.C. [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [0190-8286](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0190-8286). [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [1330888409](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/1330888409).

## External links

- [Stuart Loory page](https://web.archive.org/web/20060419182004/http://journalism.missouri.edu/faculty/stuart-loory.html) via University of Missouri

- [Stuart H. Loory biography](http://reportingcivilrights.org/authors/bio.jsp?authorId=46) via Reporting Civil Rights

- [Appearances](https://www.c-span.org/person/?1022517) on [C-SPAN](/source/C-SPAN)

- [Stuart H. Loory papers](https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv734419?q=7634) are archived at the [American Heritage Center](/source/American_Heritage_Center).

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