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FILE - Seymour Topping, Pulitzer board administrator, speaks at the Graduate School of Journalism of Columbia University in New York, in this March 4, 2002, file photo. Topping, among the most accomplished foreign correspondents of his generation for The Associated Press and the New York Times and later a top editor at the Times and administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, died on Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020, in White Plains, N.Y. He was 99. Topping passed away “peacefully” at White Plains Hospital, his daughter Rebecca said in an emailed statement. (AP Photo/David Karp, File)

Renowned world correspondent Seymour Topping dead at 98

By JOHN DANISZEWSKI - Associated Press

This photo provided by University of Missouri shows Yin-Chih Jao from the 1923 &amp; 1924 Savitar Yearbook. The Associated Press has recognized the sacrifice of Yin-Chih Jao, a journalist in China by installing his name Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019 on its memorial Wall of Honor. Jao was a correspondent working for the AP in China at the time of the Communist Red Army's victory over Nationalist forces and its conquest of China. Jao continued to work for AP in Nanjing even after American correspondents were evicted from the country. His passion for journalism led to his execution in 1951. (University of Missouri via AP)

AP honors journalist executed in 1951 by Chinese officials

By JOHN DANISZEWSKI - Associated Press