Salt Lake Tribune copy editor and headline writer Robert Ellefson died Tuesday of pneumonia. From the sound of it, he started out at City News Bureau, since his bio includes a stint at the Chicago Sun-Times. City News was owned by the Sun-Times’ arch-rival the Chicago Tribune, but nearly every young reporter spent some time “checking it out” at the News.

He sounds like a rare character for Utah, and I wish I’d known him.

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