David Carr, columnist at The New York Times, died Thursday night at the age of 58.
According to The New York Times, the star of the documentary "Page One" was discovered shortly before 9 p.m., having collapsed in the Manhattan office of the newspaper. The creator of The Times feature The Carpetbagger was taken to Roosevelt Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Earlier on Thursday, Carr moderated a discussion about "Citizenfour" with the film's subject, Edward J. Snowden. Carr had been on Anderson Cooper 360 Wednesday night (the same night Bob Simon died) discussing Brian Williams' fall from grace.
"We want our anchors to be both good at reading the news and also pretending to be in the middle of it," Carr wrote on Monday about the Williams' scandal. "That's why, when the forces of man or Mother Nature whip up chaos, both broadcast and cable news outlets are compelled to ship the whole heaving apparatus to far-flung parts of the globe, with an anchor as the flag bearer.
"We want our anchors to be everywhere, to be impossibly famous, globe-trotting, hilarious, down-to-earth, and above all, trustworthy. It's a job description that no one can match."
Carr also penned a memoir, released in 2008, titled "The Night of the Gun," in which he confessed his previous addiction to crack cocaine while living with a drug dealer - the mother of his twin girls, Erin and Meagan.
Carr is also survived by his wife Jill and their daughter Maddie.
