Famed journalist and writer Rod Nordland (1949–2025) has died from glioblastoma. Our condolences to his wife, Leila Segal, and his children. Mr. Nordland met our founder Jessica Morris and was briefly a board member of OurBrainBank.

“Ms. Segal said that Mr. Nordland had been given only 14 months to live when he received his diagnosis, but with experimental treatments, led by Dr. Eric T. Wong of the Lifespan Cancer Institute at Rhode Island Hospital, he survived for six years.

In his memoir, he connected his sense of the purpose of journalism to his memories of growing up. ‘That my father’s treatment of all of us, especially Mommy, was hidden from public view, that he managed to continue his life of criminal abuse relatively unscathed, at least within our family, enraged me,’ Mr. Nordland wrote. ‘What was the point of being a journalist if you didn’t make hidden injustices visible?’”