BRATENAHL, Ohio -- Thom Greer, a pioneering journalist who rose from covering the suburbs to being one of the first black editors of a major daily newspaper, died Sunday, March 27, 2011, of cancer. He was 69.
Greer became editor of The Plain Dealer in 1990 – 26 years after beginning his journalism career in Trenton, New Jersey. He was one of only three black journalists to lead newsrooms at major daily newspapers at that time.
"Thom was a role model for me and many other young African American journalists," said close friend Gregory Moore, Plain Dealer state editor when Greer came in 1983, now editor of the Denver Post. "He was just an incredible story-teller.
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