Victor Navasky, a US journalist and activist. (Photo: VNA)

His death, in a hospital on January 23, was caused by pneumonia, said his son, Bruno Navasky.

Born on July 5, 1932 in New York, Victor Navasky worked for The New York Times as an editor and then served as a longtime editor and editor-in-chief of the Nation - one of the US’s oldest magazines.