Kay Mills, writer was 69

Kay Mills, the former Los Angeles Times editorial writer who authored five books, died Thursday at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, the Times says. She was 69. Mills' books included "A Place in the News: From the Women's Pages to the Front Page" (1988), "This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer" (1993) and "Changing Channels: The Civil Rights Case that Transformed Television" (2004). Mills taught journalism and writing at USC and Princeton, was a founding board member of the Journalism and Women Symposium and had chaired the biography jury for the Pulitzer Prize.

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