Journalist and Publisher Austin Kiplinger Dies at 97

A long life and career for the native Washingtonian.

Austin H. Kiplinger, a journalist and publisher who spent 35 years running Kiplinger Washington Editors, Inc., the personal finance-focused publishing company started by his father in 1920, passed away on Friday at a hospice in Rockville, Md. The cause was cancer that had spread to his brain. He was 97.

Kiplinger, a native Washingtonian, got his start in journalism at the age of 18, when he was a stringer for the Ithaca Journal while attending Cornell.

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