‘Unflappable’ journalist who helped The Salt Lake Tribune win a Pulitzer dies
April 8, 1922-Jan. 20, 2025 — Bob Blair, a 40-year Tribune reporter, editor and opinion writer, crafted the newspaper’s first story of a 1956 midair collision over the Grand Canyon.
Robert Clarke "Bob" Blair, a former Salt Lake Tribune reporter who helped the newspaper win its first Pulitzer Prize, died Jan. 20, 2025, at age 102.
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