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The publisher of The Charlotte Observer for over two decades has died

Rolfe Neill, a longtime newspaperman and editor who led The Charlotte Observer as its publisher when it won a pair of Pulitzer Prizes for public service, died Friday at age 90. Neill, a North Carolina native whose journalism career included two stops in Charlotte between leadership positions in other big-city papers, died of complications from peritoneal cancer at his Lake Norman-area home, daughter Ingrid Ebert told the Observer. In 1975, Neill became publisher and president of the Observer and the now-defunct afternoon Charlotte News.

The publisher of The Charlotte Observer for over two decades has died. Rolfe Neill was a longtime newspaperman and editor who led the paper when it won a pair of

Rolfe Neill, a longtime newspaperman and editor who led The Charlotte Observer as its publisher when it won a pair of Pulitzer Prizes for public service, died Friday at age 90. Neill, a North Carolina native whose journalism career included two stops in Charlotte between leadership positions in other big-city papers, died of complications from peritoneal cancer at his Lake Norman-area home, daughter Ingrid Ebert told the Observer. In 1975, Neill became publisher and president of the Observer and the now-defunct afternoon Charlotte News.

The publisher of The Charlotte Observer for over two decades has died