David Abram Laventhol (July 15, 1933 – April 8, 2015) was an American newspaper editor and publisher at The Washington Post, Newsday and the Los Angeles Times.
[1] In 1966, Ben Bradlee brought him to The Washington Post as night managing editor, and in 1968 gave Laventhol the task of redesigning the "For and About Women" section.
[1] They created the Style section, described as a "monumental achievement", later "imitated in every paper in America",[7] and which concentrated on vibrant writing and feature articles.
Many of his expansions were reversed in the contraction of the newspaper industry, most notably New York Newsday, which was closed in 1995 for financial reasons, with some sources citing its loss-making[1] and others contending it was about to break even.
After Mandela's speech at the International Press Institute in Kyoto in 1991,[20] Laventhol took the 1994 congress to Cape Town very shortly before South Africa's first free elections.
de Klerk gave the opening speeches, with Mandela thanking the international press for keeping apartheid in the news and saying: "We are confident that your presence will, as in the past, assist in the birth of the democratic new order.