Pete Hamill, the legendary newspaper reporter whose decades of work helped define an era of New York City, died of heart and kidney failure at 85.
Numerous journalists paid tribute to Hamill on Twitter, many of them naming him as a mentor, and the quintessential New Yorker. Gov. Andrew Cuomo called him the"voice of New York."
So saddened to hear that Pete Hamill passed away. Pete was not just an unsurpassed journalist, editor and writer — he was the voice of New York.— Andrew Cuomo last year, Hamill said the newspapers he worked at gave New York City a"sense of meaning." Hamill's mother was a homemaker, and his father worked in factories. When Dokoupil asked Hamill if he grew up poor, Hamill responded:"Oh, we grew up poor, but not impoverished." When asked the difference, Hamill said simply:"The library."
When asked for his best, boiled-down advice for a young journalist today, Hamill replied:"Read. You can't write unless you read. Read the classics. If you've never read chronicled the lives of Hamill and his contemporary Jimmy Breslin. Together, the two men were known as"princes of print" in an era when newspapers were still king., when asked if he defined himself as a journalist, Breslin replied,"Reporter. Not a 'journalist.
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