New York Times journalist Blake Hounshell dead at 44 in apparent suicide

New York Times journalist Blake Hounshell died this week in an apparent suicide, according to media reports. He was 44 years old. 

Hounshell died "after a long and courageous battle with depression," his family said, according to the New York Times. Police are reportedly investigating the death as a suicide. 

Hounshell joined the paper in 2021; he was the writer of the popular "On Politics" newsletter. He was previously a managing editor of Foreign Policy and an editorial director at Politico. 

“There were few people in the history of our publication who have left a more lasting mark,” Politico Editor-in-Chief Matt Kaminski told the publication's staff on Tuesday. 

Hounshell is survived by a wife and two children.