David Rampe, veteran New York Times editor, dies at 60

"David Rampe, an editor on the foreign desk of The New York Times who helped shape the newspaper's coverage of the September 11 attacks and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, died Wednesday in New York. He was 60 and lived in New York. He went into cardiac arrest in Paris in January, resulting in severe brain damage, his partner, Ed Rogers, said. As the foreign desk's weekend editor, Rampe also had an integral role in organizing the paper's coverage of the 2005 London terrorist bombings and the transition in the Vatican from Pope John Paul II to Benedict XVI. In 2004, he was assigned to Paris to coordinate The Times's coverage with the International Herald Tribune and help integrate the two papers' news operations. He was living in Paris when he became ill." -IHT