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Who Was Doug Wong? Obituary, Cause of Death, Funeral

Prominent Washington Post journalist Doug Wong handled breaking news stories on various topics, including politics, natural catastrophes, wars, and criminal justice, and died suddenly in December 2022 at 58 at a house in the district.

The medical offices have determined that his death was due to hypertensive cardiovascular disease. No information about the funeral preparations is available. Everyone is grieving and inconsolable as they think of him and pay their respects.

Executive Editor Sally Buzbee and Mr Wong’s boss, Anne Bartlett, referred to him as an “essential member of the staff who was unwavering in ensuring that Post stories reached the highest standards] in a statement. Additionally, he made a special effort to coach newer editors and reporters.

Early in his journalism career, Mr Wong initially majored in engineering in college and referred to himself as “sort of a techie,” assisted in installing new pagination systems. Before being employed by The Post in 2011, he served as a copy editor and a business editor at newspapers in Texas and Missouri.

On September 24, 1964, Douglas Frank Wong Jr. was born in Houston to Chinese immigrants who established American-style restaurants and grocery businesses. After graduating from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, in 1989 with a degree in communications, he worked for the Waco Tribune-Herald for 11 years, first as a night police and religion reporter and then as a copy editor and assistant news editor.

Between 2005 and 2011, he held the positions of business copy chief and national editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch after working for the Houston Chronicle and American-Statesman.

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