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David Creagh; brought radio news to new heights

By Gil Bliss

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  January 14, 2012

As an early director of NPR’s “All Things Considered,’’ and as executive producer of Monitor Radio, a daily news service of the Christian Science Monitor, David M. Creagh “wasn’t just a radio visionary, he was always looking for the next new thing,’’ said David Cook, senior editor and Washington bureau chief for the Christian Science Monitor. Mr. Creagh also “was a steady hand on the tiller,’’ said his wife, Katherine, with whom he worked at NPR. “He was the calm in the eye of the storm.’’

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