Richard "Dick" Carlson, an award-winning journalist, political lobbyist and diplomat whose colorful – and often personally tragic – life took him from a Boston orphanage to the highest levels of media,

Richard Carlson, a controversial fixture in West Coast TV journalism during the 1970s, died Monday at his Florida home after a long illness. Carlson's death was announced by his son Tucker, the conservative pundit and former Fox News host,

Tucker Carlson’s father, veteran journalist Richard “Dick” Carlson, has died at 84. The former Fox News anchor announced in an X post that his father died on Monday at home in Boca Grande, Florida after battling an illness for six weeks.