Former Newsweek Editor Dead at 83

Osborn Elliott, 83, a former Newsweek editor, who began with the magazine as a business editor and later became a deputy mayor of New York City, died on Sunday.
Ellliott worked as an editor early on at Time, but in 1955, he was offered a job as senior business editor at Newsweek, a magazine that at the time was considered just a struggling competitor. But still, he took the job and soon became managing editor.
Newsweek reporters Adi Ignatius and Alec D.B. McCabe wrote a special Web exclusive about Elliott. They write:

As Newsweek’s top editor in the 1960s and 1970s, Elliott transformed a magazine that had been a faint rival of Time into a nimble competitor. While Time was slow to evolve from the conservative path laid down by its founder Henry Luce, Newsweek under Elliott pursued an ambitious, liberal agenda that gave the magazine a sharper identity and sense of mission. For those accomplishments, Elliott, known to his friends as "Oz," was among the first to be voted into the American Society of Magazine Editors' Hall of Fame. He also received the Frederick Douglass Award from the New York Urban League for his work in civil rights.

Read the full tribute here.