From a death notice in the Washington Post:

Gerald Arthur Fitzgerald of Washington DC and Drogheda, Ireland, died on April 9  in Washington. He was born June 17, 1932, in Gloucester, MA, the first of three sons of Gerald A. and Regina M. (Ford) Fitzgerald. He attended Holy Cross and Georgetown before serving in the Army in Heidelberg during the Korean Conflict.

He later earned his BA from GW while working a variety of jobs and appearing in local theater productions and was a reporting fellow at Columbia J School. He was a reporter and editor for Aviation Daily, the Baltimore Sun, Associated Press, Religious News Service, and Washington Post, and was the founding editor of Kosmos magazine. As an independent journalist he traveled in the United States, Ireland, the Middle East and Africa.