William R. MacKaye, a journalist who spent two decades at The Washington Post, initially as a reporter and editor of religious affairs and then as an editor on the paper’s now-defunct magazine, died Aug. 21 at a hospital in New Haven, Conn. He was 89.
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William MacKaye, a Washington Post editor, dies at 89
A former Episcopal seminarian, he left the politics beat to join The Post’s religion desk as a way to combine his spiritual and journalistic interests
August 28, 2023 at 1:22 p.m. EDT
