Ted Sell, 60; Veteran News Correspondent
Veteran journalist Ted Sell, a former reporter for the Los Angeles Times and more recently the founding editor of the McClatchy News Service, died of cancer Thursday at his Sacramento home. He was 60.
An Iowa native and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Drake University in Des Moines, Sell was a Marine Corps combat correspondent who joined The Times in 1953.
During his 20 years with this paper, Sell was a night city editor, Washington bureau staff member and established the Tokyo bureau in 1962. He returned to the country in 1964 to take over the Pentagon beat in Washington before being reassigned to Los Angeles.
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He next joined the McClatchy Newspapers as news editor of the state capital bureau for the Sacramento Bee and later served as assistant to C. K. McClatchy, editor and chairman of the McClatchy Newspapers, who died last month. In that position he oversaw the founding of the McClatchy News Service, which serves 62 daily newspapers in six states.
Sell is survived by his wife, Muriel Dobbin, former White House correspondent for the Baltimore Sun, and three children from a previous marriage.
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