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  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/1999-may-in-memorium.html",
  "year": 1999,
  "month": "May",
  "monthNum": 5,
  "headline": "In Memorium",
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  "author_name": "",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "IRE and NICAR",
  "summary": "Uplink pays tribute to its late managing editor, Brent Johnson, and announces the establishment of a memorial scholarship fund in his name.",
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    "Brent Johnson",
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    "scholarship"
  ],
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    "Journalism & Newsroom"
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  "full_text": "Many of you knew Brent Johnson, a graduate student here at Missouri, who has been managing editor of our newsletter Uplink and has contributed to the IRE Journal. Brent died April 13 of cardiac arrest. Brent had Marfans Syndrome, a connective-tissue disorder that affects the cardiovascular and skeletal systems, and had gone into the hospital to have a heart valve replaced. Although this was a serious operation, he (and we) fully expected a quick recovery and for him to go on to his internship at the Miami Herald this summer. However, complications ensued during and after the operation. Brent, who was with us for the past two years, was a gifted writer and reporter and a wonderful colleague and friend with a great sense of humor and perspective. We will miss his voice. In his memory, we are setting up at IRE a scholarship fund in his name to be given each year to the graduate student who is managing editor of Uplink. If you want to make a contribution, please make out your check to IRE and mark it for the \"Brent Johnson Scholarship Fund.\"",
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