Richard Pollak, 91, Dies; Edited Magazine That Criticized the Media

Richard Pollak, the founding editor of More magazine, an irreverent monthly journalism review that during the 1970s critiqued the media’s coverage of contentious subjects like the Vietnam War, President Richard M. Nixon and the oil industry, died on Dec. 27 in Stockholm. He was 91.

Mr. Pollak’s wife, Diane Walsh, confirmed his death, in hospice care. They had moved to Sweden from Portland, Maine, in May, to live near his daughter and grandchildren.

More was the brainchild of J. Anthony Lukas, who met Mr. Pollak when they were both young reporters at The Baltimore Sun. Mr. Lukas, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1968, had become a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine by the time he recruited Mr. Pollak to run the start-up publication in late 1970.

“What this town needs is a good journalism review, and you’re just the man to edit it,” Mr. Lukas told Mr. Pollak, Ms. Walsh said in an interview.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/business/media/richard-pollak-dead.html