Lazaro, Noel

December 24, 1918 - April 21, 1989

 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH) Monday, April 24, 1989

Noel Lazaro, a long time editor for the Oakland Tribune who began his career in the Far East, died at 70 of cancer. Lazaro was an editor with the Nation when it was Burma’s largest English-Language daily newspaper, and later worked with the Associated Press in Rangoon and with Reuters in London. He joined the Oakland Tribune in 1965 as a copy editor, later becoming editor in charge of state, national and international news from the wire services. He retired in 1984.