Former reporting teacher passes away in Texas

Tommy Miller, former reporter and teacher

Tommy Miller, who taught reporting and editing at Ole Miss in the 1980s, died at his home in Beaumont, Texas,  on July 30, 2011, of complications from a form of degenerative dementia. He was 66.

Miller left Ole Miss to become deputy managing editor of the Houston Chronicle, where he was later managing editor of one of America’s largest and most influential papers. Until retirement he held the Roger Tatarian Chair in Journalism at Fresno State University.

Tony Pederson, managing editor when Miller went to Houston, said, “His commitment to young people and teaching was constant. He never stopped being a teacher from the time he first sat down and edited stories.”
Read Will Norton’s blog on Miller’s death on this site and the comments from Miller’s students.
Also, http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7676554.html