Few Texas journalists were better liked or had better sources in the Capitol than Sam Kinch Jr., a long-time reporter for The Dallas Morning News in Austin and the founding editor of the influential political newsletter Texas Weekly. Kinch died early today at age 70. He had been battling pancreatic cancer. To those who worked with him - or those who found themselves the focus of his stories - Kinch's reputation was of fairness, hard work and joyful engagement in the coverage of politics. The best reporters like the people they're covering, and Kinch did - both the statesmen and scoundrels. Ever in good spirits, Kinch could be irreverent but unfailingly fair in his dealings with some of the most powerful political figures in Texas over the last 40 years.
Kinch was assistant bureau chief of the News's Austin bureau, a job he left to start Texas Weekly in 1984. Texas Weekly became a premier source of politics and public policy under Kinch, and remains a must-read under editor Ross Ramsey, who bought it in 1998.
He wrote books about the 1971 Sharpstown stock scandal and about campaign finance, which he coauthored with Anne Marie Kilday. He was a 1965 graduate of the University of Texas, where he served as editor of the Daily Texan. He is survived by his wife, Lilas, three children and six grandchildren.
Source: http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/02/sam-kinch-jr-a-mainstay-of-tex.html
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