Raymond E. Douglas

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Raymond E. Douglas
Born(1949-04-05)April 5, 1949
New York Times

Raymond Edward "Ray" Douglas (April 5, 1949 – 29 June 2007),

New York Times
and is credited with helping to introduce color to its news pages and to adding new sections in the 1990s.

Biography

Douglas was a veteran of the

Gannett Company when USA Today was launched in 1981.[2]

He was the vice president for systems and technology for The New York Times Company, of which the newspaper is a part. He later became the corporate chief information officer. Douglas spent most of his career working with the computer systems that helped design and publish newspapers and was deeply involved in 1997 when the paper, making the broadest changes in its format since the 1970s, introduced a wide use of color in advertisements and photographs and added new sections, including separate weekday sports and arts sections. He died on June 29, 2007, in St. Augustine, Florida, from a pulmonary embolism.[3]

References

  1. ^ Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
  2. ^ "Raymond 'Ray' Edward Douglas". St. Augustine Record. July 3, 2007. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
  3. New York Times
    . July 5, 2007. Retrieved 2008-10-23.
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