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Robert Licata, award-winning LI journalist, dies at 50

Flags flew at half-staff over Hofstra University yesterday in remembrance of a professor who friends and colleagues called a consummate journalist and teacher.

Robert Licata, assistant professor of journalism, media studies, and public relations at the college, died Sunday of kidney failure. The Bellmore resident was 50 years old.

Licata spent 21 years as a producer of Cablevision's...

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