"Can't possibly find words. David Carr was brilliant, funny, generous. My heart breaks for his family+his legion of friends

New York Times columnist David Carr, one of the most incisive and influential writers on the media business, died Thursday night after collapsing in the paper's midtown Manhattan newsroom. He was 58.

No one was a better critic of and believer in the fundamental goodness of the business of journalism. No one. — Lydia Polgreen

He is survived by a wife, Jill, and three daughters, Maddie, Erin and Meagan. "He was the finest media reporter of his generation