David Newhouse, 65, Dies; His Paper Broke the Sandusky Story
A member of a powerful publishing family, he drove his Pennsylvania newspaper’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the child sex abuse scandal at Penn State.
David Newhouse spoke to the staff of The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pa., on May 24, 2012, his last day as the paper’s editor.Credit.Joe Hermitt/The Patriot-News
Published March 6, 2021Updated March 8, 2021
David Newhouse, who as the editor guided The Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pa., to a Pulitzer Prize for breaking the story that led to the conviction of the Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky for sexually abusing young boys, and to the firing of Joe Paterno, the school’s revered head football coach, died on Wednesday at a hospital in Hanover, N.H. He was 65.