The Week of September 28, 2026
Storyboard18. CNN-News18 senior journalist Payal Mehta dies at 46 in Mumbai, PM Modi pays tribute
Payal Mehta, 46, was visiting Mumbai when she felt unwell around 2 a.m.; she was rushed to a hospital but died before she could be treated. She was known for covering Parliament, the government and the BJP, and Prime Minister Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah were among the leaders who paid tribute.
The Rio Times. Zuenir Ventura Dies at 95: The Reporter Who Explained Modern Brazil
The Brazilian journalist and author died of pneumonia at his home in Rio de Janeiro on Sept. 22, at 95. His books on 1968 and on violence in Rio shaped how Brazilians understand the dictatorship era and their divided cities, and he lay in state at the Brazilian Academy of Letters before burial.
The New Times (Rwanda). BBC journalist Mark Doyle who reported on Genocide against the Tutsi dies at 67
The veteran BBC Africa correspondent died after a short illness; he joined the BBC in 1986, became East Africa correspondent in 1993, and made his name covering the 1994 genocide. For a time he was the only foreign journalist in Rwanda during the genocide, and he later covered Sierra Leone's civil war and Liberia's post-war period as West Africa correspondent from 1997 to 2002.
Legacy.com. John Baer, a longtime Pennsylvania political journalist, dies at 79.
Mr. Baer covered state government for the Philadelphia Daily News for about a dozen years, then wrote a column for the paper for another 20 years.
Le360. Moroccan journalist Hamid Barrada dies at 87
The Moroccan journalist died early Saturday, Sept. 26, at 87. He hosted the 2M program "Mais encore" from 2007 to 2018 and left a lasting mark on Moroccan and French media.