Douglas “Doug” Manship Jr., a former publisher of The Advocate (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) and grandson of the founder of the newspaper's publishing company, died Wednesday (Sept. 17) at 82.
Manship died at home, where he was in hospice care under the care of his wife, Dianne, said his brother Richard Manship.
Richard Manship said he and his wife had visited with his brother and were driving home when they learned he had died.
“I would classify Doug as the true journalist in the family. He loved writing,” said Richard Manship, who retired last year as president and CEO officer of the Manship Media Co., which owns WBRZ-TV, the Baton Rouge ABC station, and KRG-TV in Weslaco, Texas. “His was always a labor of love.”
