On the death of a Detroit theater critic, from Detroit Metro Times
A Detroit journalist died last week. We’ve been so busy getting ready for our huge Best of Detroit issue that we haven’t had time to write up an obituary. And that’s a shame, because this journalist deserves to be remembered, at least for a minute or two. For every TV clown or flame-warring blogger that gets the big headlines, there are hundreds of journalists who toil in relative obscurity, covering their beats and connecting with readers. And when they go, few of them get a fraction of the ink they so generously spilled for others.
The journalist I’m talking about was Robert Delaney. Delaney worked for The Michigan Catholic for 22 years, until his retirement in 2013. Back in the ’00s, Delaney was writing theater reviews for The Monitor, which is how he came to my attention. He died April 11. He was 65.