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Bill Shipp, a journalist who covered politics in Georgia for more than 50 years, has died at age 89

Bill Shipp, a journalist who covered politics in Georgia for more than 50 years, has died at age 89. No cause of death has been released. Shipp first gained notice

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William "Bill" Shipp, a journalist who dedicated over five decades to reporting on Georgia's breaking stories and offering unfiltered critique of politicians, died Saturday.

Bill Shipp, a journalist who covered politics in Georgia for more than 50 years, has died at age 89. No cause of death has been released. Shipp first gained notice

William “Bill” Shipp, a journalist whose passion for scoops and sometimes-scorching criticism of politicians fueled his coverage of Georgia for more than 50 years, died Saturday at age 89. Shipp, born in Marietta in 1933, first gained public notice in 1953 as an editor of the University of Georgia’s student newspaper, The Red and Black, writing articles criticizing then-Gov. Herman Talmadge and the university system regents, including Augusta political kingpin Roy Harris, f...

During his 11 years at the Democrat, Fuller headed special projects, increased emphasis on government coverage and added the Limelight section.