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(American newspaper executive and photographer)
(American newspaper executive and photographer)
| birth_date=May 25, 1935
| birth_date=May 25, 1935
| birth_place =
| birth_place=
| death_place=[[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]], [[Louisiana]], [[United States|USA]]
| death_place=[[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]], [[Louisiana]], [[United States|USA]]
| death_date=March 27, 2007 (aged 71)<br>
| death_date=March 27, 2007 (aged 71)<br>
Neville High School (Monroe)<br>
Neville High School (Monroe)<br>
[[University of Alabama]]}}
[[University of Alabama]]}}
'''Robert Wilson Ewing, III''' (May 25, 1935– March 27, 2007), was a sports and underwater [[photographer]] for ''The Monroe News Sta''' in [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]], [[Louisiana]]. According to his obituary, Ewing performed free-lance work for ''[[National Geographic]]'' and the naturalist [[Jacques Cousteau]]. As the grandson of ''News Star'' founder [[Robert Ewing, I]], he was a member of the [[newspaper]] board of directors.<ref name=mns>''The Monroe News Star,'' April 1, 2007.</ref>
==Biography==
==Biography==
Ewing attended the public Neville High School in Monroe, but graduated from a private school in [[New Jersey]]. He attended the [[University of Alabama]] at [[Tuscaloosa]], [[Alabama]].<ref name=mns/>
Ewing attended the public Neville High School in Monroe, but graduated from a private school in [[New Jersey]]. He attended the [[University of Alabama]] at [[Tuscaloosa, Alabama|Tuscaloos]], [[Alabama]].<ref name=mns/>
Ewing, I, bought the ''Monroe Morning World'' in 1930, from Clarence E. Faulk, Sr., who was also a founder of Delta Air Lines and the father of [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]] publisher]], [[Clarence Faulk]]. Wilson Ewing, the son of Ewing, I, and the father of Ewing, III, was the editor and publisher of ''The Monroe 'Morning World'' from 1938 to 1952, when he died of a [[heart attack]]. Wilson Ewing briefly took the helm of ''The Shreveport Times,'' the morning daily in [[Shreveport]], after the death of his brother, [[John D. Ewing|John D. Ewing, Sr.]], who had been the ''Times'' publisher and editor since 1931. Both Wilson Ewing and John D. Ewing, Sr., died in 1952.<ref name=times>''The Shreveport Times]],'' March 30, 2007</ref>
Ewing, I, bought the ''Monroe Morning World'' in 1930, from Clarence E. Faulk, Sr., who was also a founder of Delta Air Lines and the father of [[Clarence Fields]], the former publisher of the ''Ruston Daily Leader'' in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]], Louisiana. Wilson Ewing, the son of Ewing, I, and the father of Ewing, III, was the editor and publisher of ''The Monroe 'Morning World'' from 1938 to 1952, when he died of a [[heart attack]]. Wilson Ewing briefly took the helm of ''The Shreveport Times,'' the morning daily in [[Shreveport]], after the death of his brother, [[John D. Ewing|John D. Ewing, Sr.]], who had been the ''Times'' publisher and editor since 1931. Both Wilson Ewing and John D. Ewing, Sr., died in 1952.<ref name=times>''The Shreveport Times]],'' March 30, 2007.</ref>
In 1977, Robert Ewing's family, including [[Edmund Graves Brown]], sold the newspapers to [[Gannett]]. The two Monroe papers consolidated in 1980 as the ''News-Star-World.'' On May 22, 1988, the name changed to simply ''The News-Sta.'' In addition to ''The Shreveport Times'' and the Monroe publication, Ewing's namesake grandfather, a well-known publisher and journalist for more than four [[decade]]s, owned the former ''Daily States in [[New Orleans]].<ref name=times/>
In 1977, Robert Ewing's family, including [[Edmund Graves Brown]], sold the newspapers to [[Gannett]]. The two Monroe papers consolidated in 1980 as the ''News-Star-World.'' On May 22, 1988, the name changed to simply ''The News-Sta.'' In addition to ''The Shreveport Times'' and the Monroe publication, Ewing's namesake grandfather, a well-known publisher and journalist for more than four [[decade]]s, owned the former ''Daily States in [[New Orleans]].<ref name=times/>
Ewing, III, died at St. Francis Medical Center in Monroe from injuries sustained in an accidental fall down a freight [[elevator]] shaft at a Monroe storage and warehouse company. He was [[divorce]]d from the former Kathie Robinson, the mother of his daughter, Krista E. Wilson (husband Johnny Wilson); and his son, Robert Wilson Ewing, III, who married Faustena Ewing.<ref name=mns/>
Ewing, III, died at St. Francis Medical Center in Monroe from injuries sustained in an accidental fall down a freight [[elevator]] shaft at a Monroe storage and warehouse company. He was [[divorce]]d from the former Kathie Robinson, the mother of his daughter, Krista E. Wilson (husband Johnny Wilson); and his son, Robert Wilson Ewing, III, who married Faustena Ewing.<ref name=mns/>
He is interred at Lake Lawn Metairie Cemetery in in Metairie in [[suburb]]an Jefferson Parish]] near New Orleans.<ref name=mns/>
He is interred at Lake Lawn Metairie Cemetery in in Metairie in [[suburb]]an Jefferson Parish]] near New Orleans.<ref name=mns/>