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Chris Mortensen Dies: NFL Reporter For ESPN Was 72
Veteran NFL reporter Chris Mortensen is dead at 72.
“Mort was widely respected as an industry pioneer and universally beloved as a supportive, hard-working teammate,” ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro said in a statement. Earlier in his career, he wrote for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (1983 to ’90), covering the Falcons, Braves, and the NFL, and won the George Polk Award in 1987 for his reporting. Mortensen began his journalism career in California at the South Bay’s Daily Breeze in 1969, and won the National Headliner Award for investigative reporting in all categories.
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