In Hederman's custody, The New York Review has thrived amid industry turmoil. Rea Hederman isn't one to choose the easy path. In 1984, Hederman, recently dismissed from his family's Mississippi newspaper chain, purchased The New York…
Rea Hederman has twice left his mark on American journalism. In the 1970s and early 1980s he changed his family's flagship paper, The Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Miss., from a voice for segregation and racism into…