Former Vacaville newspaper editor dies from COVID-19
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A former Vacaville newspaper editor has died from complications related to the novel coronavirus COVID-19.
Jim Ketchum worked as a copy editor for the Vacaville Reporter in the early 2000s, according to an obituary published on the newspaper’s website Saturday afternoon.
Ketchum died at a hospital in Orange earlier this week, his daughter told the newspaper. He was 91.
He had a lengthy career in the newspaper industry working for various publications, including the San Diego Union-Tribune where he was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize in the late 1970s.
After retiring from the Union-Tribune, Ketchum moved to Solano County where he landed a job as a copy editor with the Vacaville Reporter. He chronicled his time in the newspaper industry via an online blog shortly after leaving the Reporter.
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