Susan Tifft, Co-Writer of The Trust and The Patriarch, Dies at 59

With her husband and fellow journalist Alex Jones, Tifft penned The Trust, a detailed look at the Sulzberger-Ochs family, which has run The New York Times since 1986. The pair also wrote The Patriarch, about the intrigue behind a newspaper family’s sale of the Louisville Courier-Journal to Gannett in 1986. Tifft had also written and edited for Time.

Tifft, who had cancer, chronicled her experiences at length in a blog