RIP: Denver Post Reporter Colleen O'Connor
“The joke is that all reporters are cynical,” says a former colleague. “I’ve never met someone so genuinely kind.”
Life is precious.
The same world that can offer up such pleasures as the opportunity to spend time with famed journalist and author Gay Talese can then suddenly take it all away. As it did last Wednesday, to Colleen O’Connor, a 60-year-old Now Team reporter with the Denver Post.
At the end of a workday, O’Connor was struck in a crosswalk and killed by a young driver; his blood was drawn and is being tested for drug-alcohol levels. From the Post obituary by former colleague Kevin Simpson:
Political reporter Joey Bunch considered O’Connor one of his closest friends in the newsroom, having started at the Post at about the same time.
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