Jeffrey Zaslow, the Wall Street Journal columnist who died in a car accident in Michigan on Feb. 10, was one of those rare journalists who managed not only to excel in the media business, but also to transcend the cynicism that so often grinds down repor

New York Times' foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid has died in Syria, while trying to cross the border on foot into Turkey. A week ago, author and columnist Jeffrey Zaslow also died, tragically. While Shadid worked on the margins in the dangerous hot s

An obituary on Saturday about the author Jeffrey Zaslow contained several errors. The bookstore where Mr. Zaslow appeared on Thursday, the night before he was killed in an automobile accident, was in Petoskey, Mich. , not in Elmira, Mich. Randy Pausch, th

Jeffrey Zaslow, who died in an auto accident Feb. 10, inspired millions with his books about national heroes and ordinary Americans. He even wrote about the girls from Ames. Eight Iowans featured in his 2009 best-seller The Girls From Ames thought so muc

The nonprofit National Society of Newspaper Columnists Education Foundation has renamed its undergraduate college scholarship program to honor Jeffrey Zaslow, the best-selling author and Wall Street Journal columnist who died Friday in a car accident in

A scholarship awarded annually to a college newspaper columnist by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists will be renamed to honor Jeffrey Zaslow, the West-Bloomfield based author and Wall Street Journal columnist who died in a northern Michigan ca