Dori J. Maynard, a former journalist and president of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, has died, the organization announced. She was 56.
Maynard died Tuesday at her home in West Oakland, according to the Oakland-based Institute, which is named after her father and has trained dozens of minority journalists over more than three decades. The cause of her death was complications from lung cancer, according to the institute.
In a statement posted on the organization's website, the Maynard Institute said she "advocated tirelessly ... reminding all that the work of bringing the diverse voices of America into news and public discourse is more vital than ever."
She had been president of the institute since 2001, according to a biography on its website, and was a member of the board of the American Society of News Editors. She previously wrote for the Bakersfield Californian and the Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Mass., and covered politics briefly for the Detroit Free Press. Maynard was a graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont.
In 1993, Dori Maynard and Robert C. Maynard became the first father-daughter duo to be appointed Nieman scholars at Harvard University, according to the Institute.
Maynard's father, Robert, co-founded the institute in 1977 in an effort to train minority journalists and promote accurate representation of minorities in the news media. Robert Maynard was the editor of the Oakland Tribune when he bought the newspaper in 1983. He became the first African American to own a major metropolitan newspaper.
Tributes on social media from journalists across the country honored Maynard with tributes on Twitter on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.
"In her quietly intense way, [Dori Maynard] made a profound difference in American newsrooms. RIP, our friend," tweeted David Boardman, president of the American Society of News Editors.
Gwen Ifill, managing editor and anchor of "PBS NewsHour," tweeted: "Very sad to hear this morning of the passing of [Dori Maynard], a champion for journalism diversity."
Staff writer Kurtis Lee contributed to this report.
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Copyright © 2015, Los Angeles Times7:03 a.m. This post was updated.
This post was originaally published Feb. 25, 10:12 a.m.
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