Bill Carter Remembers David Carr

A brief but poignant tribute, via our sister publication THR

DavidCarrNYTHeadshotHow’s this for a wonderfully succinct summary of the late New York Times media critic’s personality?:

He was self-effacing, self-promoting and entirely selfless all at the same time.

It comes from Bill Carter, the paper’s former TV critic and close friend of Carr’s. In a brief essay posted today by our sister publication THR, he crafts several more memorable DC loglines. Here’s another:

He was an old-fashioned newspaper man with unbridled enthusiasm for the disruptions of inventive new forms of journalism…

Read the full piece here.

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