Former Daily News Editor Michael O'Neill Dead at 89
Michael O’Neill, the former editor of The New York Daily News, has died. The paper is reporting that O’Neill died in his sleep after a two year battle with pulmonary fibrosis.
O’Neill started at the Daily News’ Washington bureau in 1956 as a correspondent, and eventually rose to become its editor, a position he held from 1975 to 1982. Perhaps his most memorable headline was “Ford to City: Drop Dead” after Gerald Ford declared he wasn’t going to bail the city out.
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