Daily News | Robert J. Hall, former Inquirer publisher and chairman, has died at 77
Robert J. Hall, 77, former longtime publisher and chairman of The Inquirer, who guided the paper and its parent companies through both exciting and turbulent times between 1990 and 2014, former publisher and chairman of the Detroit Free Press, philanthropist, civic leader, and Philadelphia native, died Monday of a heart attack at his home in Jupiter, Fla.
Eileen Coleman, Mr. Hall’s longtime executive administrator, said he was “organized and kind, an ideal man in every way.” She said: “He loved the newspaper business and liked to say he had ink in his veins.”Mr. Hall was executive vice president, general manager, and later publisher and chairman of the Detroit Free Press from 1985 to 1990, and he oversaw a merger of noneditorial operations of the Free Press and rival Detroit News that resulted in a controversial joint-operating agreement.
He created the Robert Hall Associates consulting firm in 2004 and taught and served on various boards for a while. In 2006, he became a paid senior adviser to a California investment group called Yucaipa Cos. that wanted to buy The Inquirer after it was purchased from Knight-Ridder by McClatchy Co. and in 2009 was a consultant to the hedge-fund operators Angelo Gordon & Co. and Alden Global Capital. After they succeeded in taking ownership at auction, he returned as COO in 2011.
William K. Marimow, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and former top editor at The Inquirer, first worked with Mr. Hall as his assistant from 1991 to 1993. “He was a generous and knowledgeable mentor who spent considerable time helping me to understand the interrelationship between the business of the newspaper industry and journalism,” Marimow said.
Driven and personable, he got a job in the Philadelphia office of the accounting firm Ernst & Ernst, now Ernst & Young, while he was still a student at Drexel, became a certified public accountant, and joined The Inquirer in 1973 as controller. He married Ronna Stroback in 1968, and they had daughter Marlo and son Matthew, and lived in Rydal and Penn Valley.
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