Retired AP investigative reporter Pete Yost dies at age 73 Pete Yost, a retired Associated Press investigative reporter with a fierce, determined style of interviewing that contrasted with his low-key, modest personality, has died at age 73WASHINGTON -- Pete Yost, a retired Associated Press investigative reporter with a fierce, determined style of interviewing that contrasted with his low-key, modest personality, died Tuesday night at the age of 73. “In 48 years as an AP journalist, I had never seen a reporter as determined as Pete Yost. “He responded with the precise page number.”Peter Frederick Yost was born in Atlanta on June 24, 1947, the son of Jessie Lee Yost and Frederick Yost. Yost started in the AP Detroit bureau in 1972 and then transferred to Lansing later that year. He moved to the Washington bureau in 1983 and worked there, covering legal affairs and other beats, until his retirement in January 2015.

Source: ABC News October 21, 2020 13:10 UTC