Vincent Michael Bradley, 72, of Bourne, Mass., died Aug. 1.

He began his career in newspaper circulation. Bradley later became a publisher for several years. He oversaw a five-newspaper division for MPG Communications, based in Plymouth, Mass., and whose flagship newspaper was the Old Colony Memorial of Plymouth.

Bradley created local and regional publications in New England and did marketing for Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, and Sports Illustrated, while running his own publishing company.

Later, he was a consultant in New England and New York for print media outlets.

He recently published a book of historical fiction about the sixteenth town on Cape Cod, a novel called “False Flag.”

Bradley leaves his wife, Lucia; a son, Joseph; a daughter, Kate.

The obituaries were written, at least in part, from published reports by Bulletin correspondent Nimra Aziz, an undergraduate student in the Northeastern University School of Journalism.

John J. Gould, 86, of Everett and Chatham, Mass., died July 30 in New Hampshire.

He was a reporter for the former Boston Herald Traveler. He covered the sinking of the Andrea Doria and the Boston Strangler case, among other stories.

He then was employed briefly at the Associated Industries of Massachusetts, a trade group made up 3,000 manufacturers and financial institutions.

He helped President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 when he needed Gould’s assistance with his election campaign in Massachusetts. He called Gould to Washington for help with presidential visits in the state.

During the 1964 election, Gould was an adviser to the president and White House staff.

He later was senior vice president for government and investor relations at the former Shawmut Bank of Boston. He was also secretary to the Coordinating Committee of Boston, known as The Vault, which included the top 25 chief executive officers in the city.

In 1988, Gould became chief executive officer of the Associated Industries of Massachusetts.

He had been a chairman of the Boston School Committee.

He leaves a son, Michael; a daughter, Eileen; six grandchildren, Emily, Andrew, Jessica, Jennifer, Hannah and Charlie; a brother.

The obituaries were written, at least in part, from published reports by Bulletin correspondent Nimra Aziz, an undergraduate student in the Northeastern University School of Journalism.

William Zachary “Bill” Malinowski, 57, of Barrington, R.I., died Aug. 11 in his home. He was diagnosed 16 months before that with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

He began as a reporter at The Providence (R.I.) Journal in 1985 and had a more than 30-year career there. Before that, Malinowski was a general assignment reporter at The Denver Post and the Tempe (Ariz.) Daily News.

He received the Master Reporter award in 2014 from the New England Society of News Editors. He also received the society’s 2014 Sevellon Brown New England Journalist of the Year award for a series he wrote on gun violence called The Cost of a Bullet.

“He cut through the nonsense and the verbiage and got to the heart of the matter while always understanding the betrayal of the public trust,” Dan Barry, a friend and colleague of Malinowski at the Providence Journal, said in the Journal’s obituary on Malinowski. “He was comfortable talking with cops and wise guys. They respected him because he was so straightforward — there was no artifice.”

Mike Stanton, a former Providence Journal investigative reporter and Malinowski’s friend, said in the Journal’s obituary on Malinowski: “Bill was a reporter’s reporter who knew and reminded me daily of the value of shoe-leather journalism. He was a comforting presence on a big story.”

Malinowski leaves his wife, Mary, a former photographer at the Journal; a daughter, Molly; a sister, Marsha; a brother, Paul; a half-sister, Bronislawa.

The obituaries were written, at least in part, from published reports by Bulletin correspondent Nimra Aziz, an undergraduate student in the Northeastern University School of Journalism.

Dorothea M. “Dot” (Herty) Ashworth, 93, of Amherst, Mass., died Aug. 9 in the Elaine Center in Hadley, Mass.

She was a reporter at the then-Holyoke (Mass.) Trancript.

Ashworth leaves her husband, Dennis; three sons, Michael, Joseph and Stephen; two daughters, Chris and Barbara; seven grandchildren; a great-grandchild; a sister; two brothers.

The obituaries were written, at least in part, from published reports by Bulletin correspondent Nimra Aziz, an undergraduate student in the Northeastern University School of Journalism.

Norman E. Croft Jr., 69, of Dracut, Mass., died unexpectedly Aug. 13 in his home.

Croft was a typesetter at The Boston Globe until his retirement in 2006.

He leaves his mother, Ruth; a son, Thomas; a daughter, Susan; two grandchildren; his girlfriend, Eileen Grenon; two brothers; five sisters.

The obituaries were written, at least in part, from published reports by Bulletin correspondent Nimra Aziz, an undergraduate student in the Northeastern University School of Journalism.