Person

Sloyan, Patrick J.

1937

Newsday journalist whose skepticism toward official Pentagon statements led to a Pulitzer Prize-winning series on the first Gulf War, died Feb. 4 [2019] at his home in Paeonian Springs, Va. He was 82. Mr. Sloyan, who became a reporter while serving in the Army in the 1950s, spent much of his career in Washington, first with United Press International and later at the D.C. bureau of the Long Island-based Newsday