Robert Pear, a health reporter who spent four decades as a correspondent for the New York Times, died on Tuesday following complications from a stroke, the paper revealed in a memo to staff Wednesday. He was 69.
“We are heartbroken to tell you that Robert Pear, one of the all-time great New York Times journalists and the dominant figure in Washington health care reporting, died peacefully at Montgomery Hospice in Maryland shortly after 9 p.m. last night. Robert suffered a stroke last week,” executive editor Dean Baquet and Washington bureau chief Elisabeth Bumiller said in the memo obtained by TheWrap.