Charles A. Goodykoontz Jr., 74; Edited Newspaper
Charles Alfred Goodykoontz Jr., retired executive editor at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, died Monday in a car crash in Pennsylvania. He was 74.
A longtime newspaperman, Goodykoontz was hired by the Times-Dispatch in 1952 as a reporter.
He retired in 1993 as the newspaper’s top news executive.
During his career at the newspaper, Goodykoontz guided the merger of the Times-Dispatch with the Richmond News Leader, the city’s evening paper, in 1992.
Goodykoontz was national treasurer of the Associated Press Managing Editors in 1989-90. He served as national president of the Society of Professional Journalists in 1978 and was president of the national Sigma Delta Chi Foundation from 1984 to 1987.
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