Leroy "Roy" F. Aarons (December 8, 1933 â€" November 28, 2004) was an
American journalist, editor, author, playwright, founder of the
National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA), and founding
member of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. In
2005 he was inducted into the NLGJA Hall of Fame.Born in Bronx, New
York, on December 8, 1933 to Jewish Latvian immigrant parents Leroy F.
Aarons Aarons graduated cum laude from Brown University and earned an
MS from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. He served in the
Navy and Naval Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant, then took a
copyediting job with the New Haven Journal-Courier. The Washington
Post hired him.Aarons remained at the Post for many years. As an
editor and a national correspondent, he served as New York bureau
chief and later established the paper's first Los Angeles bureau. He
covered major events of the 1960s and 1970s such as the assassinations
of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, urban riots, and
government scandals.
American journalist, editor, author, playwright, founder of the
National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA), and founding
member of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. In
2005 he was inducted into the NLGJA Hall of Fame.Born in Bronx, New
York, on December 8, 1933 to Jewish Latvian immigrant parents Leroy F.
Aarons Aarons graduated cum laude from Brown University and earned an
MS from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. He served in the
Navy and Naval Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant, then took a
copyediting job with the New Haven Journal-Courier. The Washington
Post hired him.Aarons remained at the Post for many years. As an
editor and a national correspondent, he served as New York bureau
chief and later established the paper's first Los Angeles bureau. He
covered major events of the 1960s and 1970s such as the assassinations
of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, urban riots, and
government scandals.
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