{
  "id": 15681729,
  "title": "Ann Hornaday, Longtime Washington Post Film Critic and Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Dies at 66",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/ann-hornaday-longtime-washington-post-film-critic-and-pulitzer-prize",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-20T01:26:47.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/people-news/ann-hornaday-dead-washington-post-film-critic-1236917007/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Ann Hornaday, the longtime film critic at The Washington Post, died Sunday at her home in Baltimore following a battle with glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer. She was 66. Hornaday spent more than 20 years at the Post, joining in 2002 and leaving in 2025. Over the course of her time at the Post, […]",
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      {
        "outlet": "TheWrap",
        "title": "Ann Hornaday, Chief Film Critic at the Washington Post, Dies at 66",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/ann-hornaday-chief-film-critic-at-the-washington-post-dies-at-66",
        "published": "2026-10-20T00:59:53.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}