{"id":1802985,"date":"2023-01-12T00:04:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T05:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1802985"},"modified":"2023-01-12T00:04:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T05:04:56","slug":"top-new-york-times-journalist-dies-suddenly-at-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-new-york-times-journalist-dies-suddenly-at-44\/","title":{"rendered":"Top New York Times Journalist Dies Suddenly At 44"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftop-new-york-times-journalist-dies-suddenly-at-44%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1802985&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Top <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/new-york-times\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times<\/a> According to his family, Blake Hounshell, a political reporter, died unexpectedly this week. He had been suffering from depression for a while. He was 44 years of age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is with great sorrow that we have to inform you that Blake has suddenly died this morning after a long and courageous battle with depression,\u201d His family made the following statement. \u201cHis wife, Sandy, and two children are in our thoughts and prayers, and ask for respect and privacy at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After joining Foreign Policy magazine, Hounshell began working in media after. \u201cworking at a human rights and democracy think tank in Cairo and studying Arabic,\u201d The Washington Post reported. He was an influential figure at Politico as well as The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>The Times <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/liamstack\/status\/1612904118065963012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a> In a statement<\/p>\n<p><em>We are very sad to report the tragic passing of Blake Hounshell. Many of us worked closely with Blake since his 2021 arrival at The Times.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Blake was a dedicated journalist who quickly distinguished himself as our lead politics newsletter writer and a gifted observer of our country\u2019s political scene.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>During the busy election cycle, Blake was an integral and always insightful member of our report. Blake was deeply devoted to his family. He was also a friend to many Washington team members and politicians who had worked alongside him for many decades.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hounshell was reportedly killed after jumping off the Taft Memorial Bridge in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Hounshell was born on the East Coast and raised in California. He studied political science at Yale.<\/p>\n<p>After 9\/11, he moved to the Middle East to understand Islamic terrorism and Politico. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2023\/01\/10\/blake-hounshell-remembrance-beloved-journalist-00077366\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>. Later, he worked in Egypt at a think tank for democracy and human rights. This is where he met Sandy Choi.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">Call or text 988 if you have thoughts of suicide or are concerned about your safety. <\/em><a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/speakingofsuicide.com\/resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">SpeakingOfSuicide.com\/resources<\/em><\/a><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\"> Here is a list of additional resources.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top New York Times political reporter Blake Hounshell passed away unexpectedly this week after a long battle with depression, according to his family. He was 44 years old. \u201cIt is with great sorrow that we have to inform you that Blake has suddenly died this morning after a long and courageous battle with depression,\u201d his &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":1802988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6202,7475,6794,5550,4126,6195,3859],"class_list":["post-1802985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-daily","tag-dies","tag-journalist","tag-suddenly","tag-times","tag-wire","tag-york"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1802985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1802988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1802985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1802985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1802985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}