News Media Guild President Vinay Cherwoo, who labored for decades to improve the lives of generations of media workers, died Thursday after a long illness, his family said. He was 56.
Cherwoo was a New York-based sports editor at The Associated Press, where over the course of three decades he developed an expertise and deep knowledge of many professional sports. His service to the Guild started in the 1990s, when he was elected to the union’s Executive Committee and served as a rank-and-file negotiator on many contracts with the AP.
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