In this July 28, 2004 photo, AP Nashville Chief of Bureau Kent Flanagan poses for a photo in Nashville, Tenn. Kent Flanagan, a longtime journalist and open government advocate who spent 21 years as Tennessee’s bureau chief for The Associated Press, died Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015. He was 69. Flanagan worked nearly 40 years as a journalist, starting with newspapers in Texas and Florida before joining the AP in Pennsylvania in 1979 as a newsman. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
