AP Reporter Recalls Dedicated Journalist Dad

Who better to pay tribute to Richard Blood, the one-time New York Daily News city editor who passed away last Friday, than his journalist son?

Michael R. Blood, a political reporter with AP in Los Angeles, tells Boston University student reporter Gina Curerri that his father loved the craft. Dad graduated from BU in the mid-1950s, earned a Master’s in journalism from Columbia University and worked initially for publications in Vermont and New Hampsire. From the article:

“Probably the thing I remember the most was his passion,” Michael said.

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