DEANDRE MCCULLOUGH, Drug Dealer Who Inspired 'The Corner', 35, DeAndre McCullough's experiences as a 15-year-old drug dealer in Baltimore inspired the writer David Simon and the former police officer Edward Burns to feature him in the book "The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner City Neighborhood," which became an Emmy-winning mini-series on HBO.
ESTHER KARTIGANER, Force as a '60 Minutes' Producer, 74, Esther Kartiganer as senior producer in charge of vetting content on CBS's "60 Minutes" became entangled in a controversy over a program that raised questions about President George W. Bush’s military service during the Vietnam War.
GERALD GOLD, Editor on the Pentagon Papers, 85, Gerald Gold was an editor for The New York Times who helped supervise the herculean task of combing through a secret 2.5-million-word Defense Department history of the Vietnam War, later known as the Pentagon Papers.
