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Jul 01 2008 12:00am EDT

Journalism Giant Clay Felker Dies

Clay Felker, the founder of New York magazine and one of the driving forces of New Journalism, died today, according to New York. He had been suffering from cancer of the mouth and throat, and was hospitalized two years ago for pneumonia.

Felker was also an editor at Esquire and the New York Herald Tribune, owned the Village Voice for a time, and founded Manhattan Inc., but it's for starting New York that he'll chiefly be remembered. Kurt Andersen, one of Felker's successors as editor of the weekly, writes:

His founding inspiration was to cover the scrum and spectacle of urban life as if it were sport of the most interesting possible kind, the city (or anyway the lower two-thirds of Manhattan) as postmodern gladiatorial coliseum, complete with colorful play-by-play and the latest stats and rankings.
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