In Memoriam: David Rampe

David Rampe, an editor on the foreign desk of The New York Times who helped shape the newspaper’s coverage of the Sept. 11 attacks and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, died Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 60 and lived in Manhattan. …

At The Times, he worked as an editor in the business section and in the Washington bureau. In the early 1990s, he was the founding editor of TimesFax (since renamed TimesDigest), a digest of Times articles sent to resorts and hotels overseas and to cruise ships.