The Denver Gazette: Editor David Hall, the feisty force-of-nature who led The Denver Post to a Pulitzer Prize in Public Service for a series debunking the belief that thousands of children went missing in the United States every year, has died at the age of 82.

Hall, of Montclair, N.J., passed away Dec. 31 after a brief illness while on a family vacation, according to the Oakes and Nichols Funeral Home.

When he arrived in Denver in 1984, Hall was determined to return The Post to prominence as one of the nation’s “great and important newspapers.”

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