Obit

Isaacs, 76

AMERICAN JOURNALIST Stephen Isaacs died of complications from a fall last August 28. He was 76.

Isaacs joined The Washington Post in 1961 and worked there for 17 years. He was the Post’s national correspondent, political reporter, and city editor. He also became its New York bureau chief and Sunday magazine editor. (Stephen D. Isaacs, Journalist and educator, Dies at 76, The New York Times)

Isaacs also worked for The Guardian, The Economist, and The Louisville Times in Kentucky.

Isaacs was known for hiring some of the best Post reporters including Carl Bernstein who broke the Watergate story with Bob Woodward. (Steve Isaacs, journalist and professor, dies, The Washington Post )

He was also the associate dean of academic affairs at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where he taught media ethics for two decades. (Journalist Stephen Isaacs dies at 76, The Washington Times)

In a statement on Isaacs’ death, former academic administrator and professor at Columbia’s journalism school Sreenath Sreenivasan said: “For a guy who was a newspaperman at heart, he was really open-minded.” Isaacs helped start a cyberspace reporting class in 1994, added Sreenivasan. (Steve Isaacs, journalist and professor, dies, The Washington Post)