David Carr, the iconoclastic media columnist for the New York Times, died Thursday while working at the Times' office, according a report posted late Thursday on the Times' website. He was 58.
The New York Times reported that he collapsed in The Times newsroom, where he was found shortly before 9 p.m. EST. He was taken to Roosevelt Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to the Times.
Earlier in the evening, he moderated a panel discussion about the film "Citizenfour" with its principal subject, Edward J. Snowden; the film's director, Laura Poitras; and Glenn Greenwald, a journalist.
Carr wrote the Media Equation column for the Times' Business section. He was also known to showbiz figures from his stint several years ago as the Times' award season correspondent for the Carpetbagger blog.
Carr was prominently featured in the 2011 docu "Page One: Inside the New York Times." He joined the Times in 2002. Before that, he was a contributing writer to the Atlantic Monthly and New York magazine. In the mid-1990s he was editor of Washington, D.C.'s City Paper.
Carr was candid about his past battles with drug addiction. In 2008 he published the nonfiction book "Night of the Gun," which revisited his experiences as a drug abuser and used traditional reporting techniques to fill in gaps and misperceptions from his own memory.
"His plainspoken style was sometimes blunt, and searingly honest about himself," the Times said in its story. "The effect was both folksy and sophisticated, a voice from a shrewd and well-informed skeptic."
On Monday, he wrote about the revelations that the NBC anchor Brian Williams had lied about being in a helicopter under fire in Iraq in 2003."We want our anchors to be both good at reading the news and also pretending to be in the middle of it," he said.
Carr's survivors including his wife, Jill Rooney Carr, and three daughters.
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