Carr penned the widely read Media Equation column that appeared in
the Monday business section and focused on "media as it intersects with
business, culture and government," according to his biography on the New
York Times website.
He also reported for the paper's culture
section and featured prominently in "Page One: Inside The New York
Times," a 2011 documentary on the publication.
The Times said
Carr collapsed in the paper's newsroom and was discovered around 9pm
local time. He was later pronounced dead at Saint Luke's Roosevelt
Hospital.
Carr moderated a panel discussion earlier on Thursday
on "Citizenfour," the documentary that chronicles the leaking of
documents by former US government security contractor Edward Snowden,
with director Laura Poitras, journalist Glenn Greenwald, and Snowden,
the paper said.
"He was the finest media reporter of his
generation, a remarkable and funny man who was one of the leaders of our
newsroom," Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet wrote in an email
circulated to staff, the paper said.
Carr was the second major force in US journalism to die in the past two days.
On
Wednesday, veteran CBS News correspondent Bob Simon was killed in a car
accident in New York City at the age of 73. Simon's decades-long career
included covering major overseas conflicts and surviving Iraqi prison.
Carr
joined the New York Times in 2002 covering the magazine publishing
industry, after working as a contributor to the Atlantic Monthly and New
York magazine, the paper said.
Earlier in his career, Carr was
editor of the alternative Washington DC weekly, Washington City Paper,
and editor of the Minneapolis-based alternative weekly, the Twin Cities
Reader, the Times said.
In 2000, he joined Inside.com, a news site about the publishing industry.
Tributes to the writer quickly poured in over social media after his death.
"Heartbroken
about David Carr's death. Great journalist, but more important, great
human being. Will miss him," tweeted Arianna Huffington, founder of the
Huffington Post.
Carr's memoir, "The Night of the Gun," which
cantered on his recovery from drug addiction, was published in 2008 by
Simon and Schuster.
"I now inhabit a life I don’t deserve, but we
all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful
and hope the caper doesn’t end any time soon," he wrote at the end of
his memoir.
Carr lived in Montclair, New Jersey, and is survived by his wife Jill Rooney Carr and his three children. abd(71)
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