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==Personal life and death== McChesney and his wife, Inger Stole, had two daughters.<ref name = Gabriel/> He died from [[glioblastoma]] at his home in [[Madison, Wisconsin]], on March 25, 2025, at the age of 72.<ref name = Gabriel/><ref name="nationobit">{{cite news |last1=Nichols |first1=John |title=Robert McChesney, the Great Champion of Journalism and Democracy, Has Died |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/society/robert-mcchesney-obituary/ |access-date=March 27, 2025 |work=The Nation |date=March 27, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Free Press Mourns the Death of Co-Founder and Scholar Robert W. McChesney {{!}} Free Press |url=https://www.freepress.net/news/press-releases/free-press-mourns-death-co-founder-and-scholar-robert-w-mcchesney |website=www.freepress.net |access-date=March 27, 2025 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Benton |first1=Joshua |title=Robert W. McChesney, America’s leading left-wing critic of corporate media, has died |url=https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/robert-w-mcchesney-americas-leading-left-wing-critic-of-corporate-media-has-died/ |access-date=March 29, 2025 |work=Nieman Lab |date=March 27, 2025}}</ref>
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