NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Masland, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who spent decades covering Haiti, Africa and the Middle East, died Thursday of injuries suffered in an auto accident. He was 55.
Masland, of Englewood, N.J., was on his way to play saxophone at a club Monday when a sport utility vehicle struck him as he crossed a Manhattan street, authorities said.
Masland was a contributing senior editor for Newsweek.com, where he began work last month after 15 years reporting for Newsweek.
"As anyone who has worked with him knows, Tom was a very kind and honorable man in addition to a valued and courageous reporter," Newsweek editor Mark Whitaker said. "He was always there for his colleagues in times of need."
Masland was awarded a Pulitzer along with other staff at The Philadelphia Inquirer in 1980 for the newspaper's coverage of the Three Mile Island disaster. He worked for the Inquirer for 11 years until 1986, and for the Chicago Tribune as a foreign correspondent from 1986 to 1990.