Richard Carlson, who won a Peabody Award for his investigative television reports about an automobile company’s brazen fraud — during which he also outed the company’s founder as a transgender woman — and who later ran Voice of America during the last years of the Cold War, died on March 24 at his home in Boca Grande, Fla. He was 84. His son Tucker Carlson, the conservative commentator and former Fox News host, said the cause was pneumonia. The younger Mr. Carlson said that before his death, his father, who strongly believed in the role of Voice of America, did not know about President Trump’s executive order, issued 10 days earlier, aimed at dismantling that government-funded broadcaster. A federal judge blocked the plan temporarily on Friday. Voice of America provides news programming in 49 languages to dozens of countries where citizens have limited access to independent journalism, including China and Iran.
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