Stuart Hugh Loory (May 22, 1932 – January 16, 2015) was an American

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and educator.

Early and education

Loory was born in Wilson, Pennsylvania. He grew up in

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, where his parents, Harry and Eve Loory, owned a large furniture store. Along with his younger brother, Melvyn, he attended prep school at Blair Academy. In 1954, Loory graduated from

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, where he was a member of the

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society and editor-in-chief of ''

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''. After three years at the ''

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'', he received a

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in journalism from

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in 1958, and did postgraduate work in

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Journalism career

Newspapers

Starting in 1959, he worked at the '' New York Herald Tribune'' as a reporter, science writer (1961–63), a Washington correspondent (1963–64), and a Moscow-based foreign correspondent (1964–66). He worked briefly as a science writer for ''

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'' in 1966, then as a

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correspondent for ''

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'' (1967–71), earning a place on President Nixon's "Enemies List." In January 1971, after Loory wrote about taxpayer expenses involved with Nixon's San Clemente, California and

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vacation homes, Loory was summarily banned from the White House.

Broadcast

Loory was a fellow at

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, 1971–72, and in 1973 executive editor for WNBC-TV news. He was the first Kiplinger Professor of Public Affairs Reporting at

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, 1973–75. He became associate and, later, managing editor of ''

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'' in 1975. In 1980, he joined the staff of

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(as managing editor of the Washington bureau, 1980–82; Moscow bureau chief, 1983–86; senior correspondent, 1986; executive producer, 1987–90; editor-in-chief of '' CNN World Report'', 1990–91; vice-president of CNN, 1990–95; executive vice-president, Turner International Broadcasting, Russia, 1993–97).

Academia

Since 1997, has been the first Lee Hills Chair in Free-Press Studies at the

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in Columbia, Missouri. He was editor of ''Global Journalist,'' a quarterly magazine of interest to journalists in 127 countries and moderator of Global Journalist on KBIA-FM radio, a

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affiliate in Columbia, Missouri. Loory retired from MU in the summer of 2010.

Books

*''The Secret Search for Peace in Vietnam'' (1968, with David Kraslow) *''Defeated: Inside America's Military Machine'' (1973) *''Seven Days That Shook the World: The Collapse of Soviet Communism'' (1991, with Ann Isme)

Family

Loory married Marjorie Dretel of Morristown, New Jersey in 1955. They had three children: Joshua, Adam, and Miriam. Marjorie and Stuart divorced in the early 1990s. In the mid 90s Stuart met Nina Kudriavtseva, while hosting

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and Jane Fonda in the Czar's Box of the Bolshoi Theater. They were married in 1995 and now live in Brooklyn, NY. Nina travels back to Moscow many times a year to visit her family there (from a previous marriage), and to be the artistic director of Benois De La Danse, the international ballet awards. Stuart has 2 grandchildren from his first son Joshua and his wife Fern Hoppenstand: Matthew Loory and Ilana. From his daughter Miriam married to Daniel Krombach, he has: Leah, Joseph, Benjamin, and Jonathan. From his second marriage, he has two grandchildren: Kostya (Konstantin) and Areseniy (Arsen). Both of his Russian half grandchildren come from two marriages of his stepson, Lyoka (Leonid). He died of lung cancer in

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on January 16, 2015.