Bryan Monroe, longtime journalist and former CNNPolitics.com editor, dies at 55
Bryan Monroe, a journalism professor and former CNNPolitics.com editor who once headed the National Association of Black Journalists and helped guide the Biloxi Sun Herald to a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Hurricane Katrina, has died. He was 55.
Monroe died Wednesday morning of a heart attack at his home in Bethesda, Maryland, where he lived with family, according to Suzanne Malveaux, a longtime friend and CNN national correspondent.
“He liked to connect people who were in different worlds whether it was the media world, Hollywood, journalism, academia,” Malveaux told CNN. “He loved to cook. He brought people to be at his house often well, not this past year, unfortunately. And he loved to bake.”