Martin Tolchin, a former reporter for The New York Times, who covered Congress and who later was the founding publisher and editor of The Hill, a successful newspaper devoted to events on Capitol Hill, died on Feb. 17 at his home in Alexandria, VA. He was 93.

Mr. Tolchin received the 1982 Everett McKinley Dirksen Aware for Distinguished Reporting of Congress, named for the Republican Senate minority leader of the 1960s. In addition to his newspaper work, Mr. Tolchin co-authored with his wife, Susan Tolchin, several books about Washington politics. He published a memoir in 2019.