Morris
Longtime newspaper columnist and journalist Leo Morris, whose opinion pieces regularly appeared in Daily Journal and other Indiana newspapers, has died, according to an announcement posted by the Indiana Policy Review website. The organization had published his weekly commentaries for the past six years.
Morris had been a journalist for 50 years, most of it with the News-Sentinel in Fort Wayne, where he lived. He had been honored for editorial writing by the Hoosier State Press Association and had been named a finalist in editorial writing by the Pulitzer Prize committee.
“He leaves a huge hole in what he termed his ‘so-called’ profession,” wrote T. Craig Ladwig, president of the Indiana Policy Review Foundation. “He grew up in newsrooms where facts were hung on a frame of ‘who, what, when, where and how’ and left there to dry without embellishment. … He was a journalist’s journalist, a wordsmith.
“Leo’s death leaves us adrift,” Ladwig wrote.
No information about services was immediately available Monday.
