Adam Petlin, director of operations in Fox Information‘ Chicago bureau, died on Dec. 23 after an extended sickness.
Petlin had a 27-year profession on the community, beginning in August 1996 as one of many first six subject photographers employed.
Suzanne Scott, the CEO of Fox Information Media, wrote in a memo to staff, “When his former boss Sharri Berg and colleague Scott Wilder visited Adam within the hospital final week, he proudly shared pictures of his phenomenal profession at Fox which took him cross nation and to spots everywhere in the world together with a visit to Antarctica and the South Pole on task with astronaut Jim Lovell.”
Scott known as Petlin a “pure chief” who was rapidly promoted to a supervisor. He led the primary Fox digicam crew on the scene in downtown Manhattan on 9/11, “and captured the devastation that instantly unfolded that day, delivering the very information that modified the world to tens of millions of viewers.”
“He was an integral a part of the sphere and manufacturing crew and a gifted nonetheless and tv photographer,” Scott wrote. “Adam was additionally extremely regarded by quite a few correspondents and anchors that have been lucky sufficient to have been on location with him on practically each main information story of the final 27 years.”
Petlin is survived by his spouse Lauren, in addition to his daughter Ava, 18, and son Luca, 14.
Preparations haven’t been introduced.
