William McDonald is an American journalist and editor for The New York Times and is the current obituaries editor.
McDonald, a former editor at Newsday on Long Island, joined the New York Times in 1988 and has held numerous positions at the paper.
He was part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2000 for the series, How Race Is Lived in America.
He grew up in Stratford, Connecticut, and earned degrees at Fairfield University in Connecticut and Syracuse University in New York.
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