Dennis Duggan, 78, Newsday Columnist
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Dennis Duggan, for the past 21 years a columnist at Newsday, died yesterday at St. Vincent’s Hospital, the newspaper announced. He was 78.
Duggan worked at the Daily Mirror and the Herald-Tribune, as well as the New York Times and the Daily News, before joining Newsday in 1967.
He served as Newsday’s financial editor, New York City bureau chief and City Hall bureau chief before becoming a columnist in 1985.
Duggan was part of the staff that won a 1992 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of a subway crash in Union Square.
