Landers, ex-executive editor of Gazette-Journal, dies at 76

RENO -- Everett S. Landers, former executive editor of the Reno Gazette-Journal, has died. He was 76.

Family members said Landers died Monday of cardiac arrest in Medford, N.J., where he had lived since retiring from newspapers in 2002.

Landers joined the Nevada State Journal as news editor in 1977, and by the time he left the merged Nevada State Journal and Reno Evening Gazette in 1989, he was executive editor. He was named Gannett Co.'s Editor of the Year in 1988.

Landers also held executive editor positions at Gannett newspapers in Olympia, Wash., Fort Myers, Fla., and Cherry Hill, N.J., before working as director of training and news staff development for Gannett's mid-Atlantic newspapers.

After retiring, he taught at Rowan University and Temple University.