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David Shaw, 62; Prize-Winning Times Writer Forged New Standards for Media Criticism By Jon Thurber, Times Staff Writer
David Shaw, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times writer who set new standards for media criticism with his hard-hitting examinations of the American press - including his own newspaper - died Monday evening. He was 62.
Shaw died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications from a brain tumor that was discovered in late May, said his wife, Lucy.