Debbie Hickman, wife of former newspaper editor Martin Dunn, has died in New York. He emailed me in the early hours to say that she "passed away tonight after a brave four-year fight against cancer."
He said she made many friends in media in both the UK and America and he wanted them to know of her death.
Dunn stepped down from the editorship of New York's Daily News in July 2010 after announcing that Debbie was ill.
He later founded StreetSmartVideo, a New York-based internet video production company. In a career stretching back to the early 1970s, Dunn held a number of senior posts in British national papers, including the editorship of the now-defunct Today and deputy editorship of The Sun.
In America, he was briefly editor of the Boston Herald and had two spells as editor-in-chief of the Daily News.
