MASS LIVE - Longtime UMass journalism professor Howard Ziff dies, Apr 17, 2012

"Howard M. Ziff, professor emeritus of journalism at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a veteran Chicago newsman, died Tuesday, his son said. He was 81.
The longtime professor and veteran newsman was a beloved mentor and friend to hundreds of young journalists whom he inspired during nearly three decades of teaching. Ziff provided his students with the foundation of journalism technique and philosophy while regaling them with tales from the newsrooms and streets of Chicago during the late 1950s and 1960s."
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