Richard David Story
American magazine editor (1952–2021)
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Richard David Story (1952 – 5 March 2021) was an American journalist and magazine editor who was the editor-in-chief of Departures from 2000 to 2017.[1][2]
Early life and education
Story was born in Oklahoma City and was educated at Northwest Classen High School.[3][1] He graduated magna cum laude from Williams College in 1974.[4][3]
Career
After graduating from Williams, Story began his editorial career as a fact checker at Reader's Digest.[5] From 1983 to 1987, he was an entertainment reporter at USA Today.[3] By 1989, he was a senior editor at New York magazine.[3]
In 2000, Story joined Departures and remained its editor-in-chief for 17 years.[6][7] In 2014, he wrote The World of Departures, a retrospective published with Assouline to mark the magazine's 25th anniversary.[8] After leaving Departures in 2017, he wrote for Town & Country and contributed a travel column to Air Mail.[5]
Story was inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame in 1989.[3]
Personal life
Bibliography
- The World of Departures (2014)