On Friday, journalists, colleagues and friends continued to pay tribute to David Carr, the beloved New York Times media columnist who died Thursday night at the age of 58 after collapsing in the paper’s newsroom.
The Times ran an obituary for Carr on its front page Friday morning and film critic A.O. Scott penned a touching remembrance of his friend inside the paper.
“David was our champion: the best we had and also the one who would go out into the world every week to make the case for what we do,” Scott wrote. “He understood better than anyone how hard the job can be, how lonely, how confusing, how riddled with the temptations of cynicism and compromise. And yet he could make it look so easy, and like the most fun you could ever hope to have.”
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Washington Post media reporter Erik Wemple, a former senior editor at WCP and friend of Carr’s, also looked back fondly on the columnist’s career, remembering his strength of character both on and off the page.
“David loved a great many people. He loved them with hugs and e-mails and tweets and advice and wisecracks. And he did it at all hours,” Wemple wrote. “Whenever we hung out, I’d feel inadequate when I’d shove off to bed at midnight or so, leaving him alone with his dog, Charlie, and his computer for God-knows-how-many more hours of work. He died at 58, which sounds young until you consider all he did.”
