KR & Ebony executive Bryan Monroe passes away

Former Ebony and Jet magazines vice president and editorial director and Knight-Ridder vice president Bryan Monroe passed away.

He also was CNN politics editor and on Temple University’s Klein College of Media and Communications and Northwestern University Medilll School of Journalism faculties and president of the National Association for Black Journalists.

In his early years he was a photographer for the San Jose Mercury News and became its deputy managing editor.

His team guided the Biloxi, Mississippi Sun Herald to a Pulitzer for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina in 2006.

Monroe was born in Munich, Germany, to U.S. Army officer MG James W. Monroe, of Laurinburg, North Carolina, and Charlyne Monroe, a schoolteacher from, Atlantic City, New Jersey.