DHAKA: David Carr, who wrote about media as it intersects with business, culture and government in his Media Equation column for The New York Times, die at the office on Thursday night local time.

He was 58.

Several employees of the paper tweeted about Carr's death, and the NYT published an obituary for the veteran columnist.

Carr's death was first reported by Times employees on Twitter, who were informed he had passed before the news was made public.

A NYT staff artist twitted “We just got a call up here from the Photo Desk. I thought it was earlier today but it was recent—probably shouldn't have said anything yet.”

“David Carr collapsed in the newsroom he loved, doing what he loved, surrounded by those who loved him. RIP,” twitted NYT columnist Nick Kristof on the death his colleague.

Carr was a celebrated writer and commentator who covered media and business for the Times for more than 10 years. But throughout his 25-year career as a journalist, he also wrote extensively about his personal life, detailing his recovery from cocaine addiction in a 2008 memoir, The Night of the Gun.

Earlier Thursday night, Carr moderated a panel interview with Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, and Citzenfour director Laura Poitras that was broadcast on livestream.

BDST: 1030 HRS, FEB 13, 2015