Deborah Howell, who as one of the first woman in a top editor position at a major newspaper, led the St. Paul Pioneer Press to two Pulitzer Prizes, died Saturday while on vacation in New Zealand, according to The Washington Post. She was 68.

Howell's family said she was struck by a vehicle.

Howell, who served as The Post's ombudsman from 2005 until late 2008, was the city editor and later an assistant managing editor at the Minneapolis Star in the 1970s, and managing editor and executive editor of the St. Paul Pioneer Press in the 1980s, according to the Star Tribune.

She left Minnesota in 1990 to become Washington, D.C., bureau chief for Newhouse Newspapers, according to The Post.

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William Tuohy, who won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting in 1969 for his coverage of the Vietnam War, died Thursday, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Tuohy, who worked for 29 years as a foreign correspondent with the Times, died Thursday morning after open heart surgery at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., Touhy's stepson, Adam Wheeler, told the paper.

Tuohy retired from the paper in 1995.

The Associated Press reported Tuohy also led the Times' Beirut, Rome and London bureaus. He worked for Newsweek before being hired to lead the Times' Saigon bureau. He began his journalism career at the San Francisco Chronicle.

A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Jan. 7 in Santa Monica. Instead of flowers, the Times said Tuohy's family suggests contributions in his name to the Overseas Press Club Foundation, where a memorial scholarship will be created.

Justin Rumbach has been named managing editor of the Indiana newspaper his family has owned since the early 1900s.

The (Jasper) Herald announced Wednesday that Rumbach will replace Hak Haskins, who is leaving the paper after 26 years to move to West Virginia and seek writing opportunities. Haskins was editor the last 10 years, according to the Associated Press.

Rumbach, whose father John serves as co-publisher with Dan Rumbach, previously served as photo editor. In September, Rumbach was named the Newspaper Picture Editor of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association, placing ahead of The New York Times (second place), Los Angeles Times (third) and The Dallas Morning News (honorable mention).

The Herald publishes Monday-Saturday and lists a circulation of 12,600.

Rumbach, who has worked at the paper since 2006, is a graduate of Indiana University and previously worked at the Midland (Mich.) Daily News and Evansville (Ind.) Courier & Press.

David Levin, an illustrator whose work was featured in The New York Review of Books, died Tuesday in Brooklyn, N.Y., according to The New York Times. He was 83.

Levine's caricatures were some of his most popular works, including 66 different works featuring President Richard Nixon.

His portraits were "often densely inked, heavy in shadows cast by outsize noses on enormous, eccentrically shaped heads, and replete with exaggeratedly bad haircuts, 5 o’clock shadows, ill-conceived mustaches and other grooming foibles," according to The Times.

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