John Procope, 82; N.Y. Amsterdam News Former Publisher
John Procope, 82, former president and publisher of the New York Amsterdam News, a Harlem-based newspaper, died Friday of pneumonia, according to the E.G. Bowman Co., where he had served as chairman.
A native New Yorker, Procope received a bachelor’s degree in business from Morgan State University, attended business school at New York University and began his career in advertising.
In 1971, he was part of a consortium that bought The Amsterdam News. He succeeded Clarence B. Jones as publisher in 1974.
He left the newspaper in 1982 to focus on his work with E.G. Bowman, a leading insurance company and one of the first major black-owned businesses on Wall Street.
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