Former editor and AP reporter killed in car accident

William Stracener, a former managing editor of The Beaufort Gazette and Associated Press newsman, died in a car wreck on Monday, according to reports from Editor & Publisher.
Stracener was a native of East Orange, New Jersey, and a graduate of Wake Forest University. He worked for the Winston-Salem (NC) Journal and United Press International before joining the Associated Press in South Carolina in 1984.
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