Kenneth Comstock News Today

News and events from the pages of The Chronicle-Express newspapers from 150, 100, 75, and 50 years ago.

Robert Ray Comstock, a fixture in the New Jersey press corps from the 1950s through the 1980s who served as Executive Editor of The Record for more than a decade, died Thursday. He was 93. Comstock also had stints working as the press director for Gov. Brendan Byrne, as an associate professor at Rutgers University, and after leaving journalism, working in public relations. Comstock died of complications from COVID-19. Described by one former reporter as running The Record’s newsroom with “a...

Bob Comstock, longtime New Jersey journalist and former editor of The Record, dies at 93 © Bob Brush/NorthJersey.com Robert B. Comstock - Record Executive Editor VP Robert Ray Comstock, a fixture in the New Jersey press corps from the 1950s through the 1980s who served as Executive Editor of The Record for more than a decade, died Thursday. He was 93. Comstock also had stints working as the press director for Gov. Brendan Byrne, as an associate professor at Rutgers University, and after leav...