Christine Mai-Duc and Marc Duvoisin of the Los Angeles Times writes, “Carr had written about the media for 25 years. Before joining the New York Times in 2002, he had been a contributing writer for The Atlantic Monthly and New York magazine, a media writer for the entertainment website Inside.com., and the editor of alternative weeklies in Washington, D.C., and Minneapolis.
“At The Times, he was a business reporter and wrote a weekly column called the Media Equation, a lively chronicle of developments in print and digital media, film, radio and television.
“‘David was always honest, always smart, always tough, whether he was writing about CNN or — even better — the New York Times, his own employer,’ recalled former New York Times business editor Lawrence Ingrassia, now associate editor of the Los Angeles Times. ‘He loved a good tussle with a subject, but he also was always fair, always generous.'”
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