Spencer Klaw, 84; Taught at Columbia, Edited Review
Spencer Klaw, 84, author and former editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, died June 3 at his home in West Cornwall, Conn., of natural causes.
Klaw taught magazine writing at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in 1970 and was named editor of the Review in 1980. Under his tenure, the magazine expanded its coverage from press criticism to include such topics as repetitive stress injury and labor issues at newspapers.
A graduate of Harvard University, Klaw worked as a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, United Press and New Yorker magazine. He was an editor at the now-defunct New York Herald Tribune and Fortune magazine.
Klaw also wrote several books.
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