Obit: Pye Chamberlayne, longtime UPI newsman and broadcaster, @ 68

[CrankyYankee]

Pye Chamberlayne, longtime UPI newsman and broadcaster, has died at his home in rural Virginia, west of Washington.

Chamberlayne was born in 1938 and was a newsman from 1953 to 1999, his online blog said.

He worked for his hometown newspaper in Richmond, Va., and helped pay his way through the University of Virginia by covering police news in Charlottesville.

Chamberlayne was bilingual, learning French while in Paris schools for four years while his father was the news editor of the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune.

He moved to Washington and began working for UPI in 1962, covering the White House for two years before covering Congress and politics. He mainly worked as a radio correspondent, and his reports were heard around the world.
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[fred flintstone]

A good reporter, like radio doesn't have any more.

First UPI dies. Now we are losing the Unipressers. It was a great organization with some very good people. Like Marines, those who moved on to other jobs (like Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley, Eric Sevareid, Howard K. Smith) were always Unipressers and it always showed in their work.

In my old neighborhood, there was an old lady who had her dead dog stuffed and kept his body by the fireplace for years after. The thing the Moonies call UPI is like that stuffed dog. But there is no longer a UPI, and American journalism (and all of us) are worse off for that.

In particular radio is worse off. At one time the core of many radio news rooms was people who learned their chops at UPI; now it's radio geeks who couldn't get jobs as jocks.