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Helen Sloane Dudman, journalist and broadcasting executive, dies at 93

February 20, 2018 at 5:54 p.m. EST
Helen Sloane Dudman with her husband, journalist Richard Dudman, in 2016. (Famliy Photo)

Helen Sloane Dudman, a former Washington Post editor who held executive positions with The Post’s broadcasting division and PBS and who drew widespread attention to her journalist husband’s 40-day captivity in Cambodia during the Vietnam War, died Feb. 19 at an assisted-living center in Blue Hill, Maine. She was 93.

The cause was congestive heart failure, said a daughter, Iris Dudman.