Hodding Carter III, president, CEO and Trustee of the John S. and James L Knight Foundation, answers a question during a news conference in Washington, Monday, Nov. 24, 2003. Carter III, a Mississippi journalist and civil rights activist who updated Americans on the Iran hostage crisis as U.S. State Department spokesman and won awards for his televised documentaries, has died. His daughter, Catherine Carter Sullivan, confirmed that he died Thursday, May 11, 2023 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)