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Journalist Phil Bangsberg dead

MANILA, Philippines, March 16 (UPI) -- Journalist Phil Bangsberg, whose career ranged from radio and television news to business writing from Asia, has died at his home in Manila.

He was a staff writer in Hong Kong for the Journal of Commerce from 1987-96 before moving to Manila, where he worked as a freelance contributor to the newspaper.

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Bangsberg began his journalism career in the late 1950s at WBNY radio in Buffalo, N.Y., while still in high school, and then moved to WKBW-TV.

He moved to UPI in New York in 1960 at the wire service's 2-year-old audio service for radio stations. He worked briefly for UPI's television newsfilm service and then returned to UPI Audio as New York bureau manager before transferring to UPI's broadcast wire operation in Chicago.

Bangsberg left UPI in the mid-60s and returned to New York, where he joined ABC Radio News as a writer and editor. After ABC, he worked briefly for the New York Times' broadcast desk as writer/editor, providing news copy for the Times' New York radio stations, WQXR AM-FM.

He moved to London and joined the Daily Telegraph as a foreign copy editor, later moving to the Times of London, where he was deputy night editor. He returned to the Telegraph before moving to newspaper jobs in Birmingham. He was managing editor of the Birmingham Evening Mail when he decided to move to Asia in the early 1980s.

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He worked for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong as deputy business editor before moving to the Journal of Commerce.

Bangsberg, a native of upstate New York, was in his early 60s. He had no surviving family.

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