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Ron Plotkin Remembered as Consummate Village Voice Editor

By AAN Staff
august 14, 2002  10:13 am
Ron Plotkin Remembered as Consummate Village Voice Editor
Ron Plotkin, who would have been 62 this December, died Friday, August 9, from a cerebral hemorrhage that felled him three weeks ago. He was the kind of editor who could demand accuracy without stifling the voice of writers such as Alexander Cockburn or Jack Newfield. Plotkin, a 24-year veteran of the Voice, "in many ways, embodied the paper's often irascible spirit and its journalistic commitment," Tom Robbins writes in this week's Village Voice. (Photo by Staci Schwartz)
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