Manfred Kirchheimer, a filmmaker who was draw to stickball, jazz, subway graffiti, gargoyles of old buildings, and the memories of aging immigrants, and who earned a reputation as a master of nonfiction cinema, died on July 16 at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He was 93.

Mr. Kirchheimer often wrote, produced, directed, photographed and edited his movies. He got funding from nonprofit sources, and he earned a living as a freelance film editor and a film professor at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan from the mid-1970s until the mid-2010s.

From 2018 to 2022, Mr. Kirchheimer released four new movies that included footage he had shot more than half a century ago. The films unearthed scenes of old men reading newspapers and youngsters playing jacks with soda caps — urban life happening on sidewalks. In a review of one of the movies, Ben Kenigsberg, film critic for The New York Times, labeled Mr. Kirchheimer a “city symphonist.”

Ina Jaffe, a NPR correspondent for about 40 years, the first editor of “Weekend Edition Saturday” and a contributor to “All Things Considered,”  died August 8 in Los Angeles. She was 75.

She covered national elections since 2008. In 2010, she received a Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association for her reporting on California’s disciplinary three-strikes law, which imposed harsher penalties for what were often minor or nonviolent criminal offenses. In 2011, her investigation into violence at psychiatric hospitals in California won an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award as well as a Gracie Award.

Ms. Jaffe’s through line of her reporting: “Make ‘em laugh, make ‘em cry, make ‘em come back for more.”

Susan Wojcicki, who helped turn Google from a start-up in her garage into an Internet juggernaut, and who became one of Silicon Valley’s  most prominent female executives with her leadership of YouTube, died on August 9. She was 56.

Ms. Wojcicki’s more than two decades with Google began in 1998 in her house in Menlo Park, CA, part of which she rented to her friends Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the company’s founders. For $1,700 a month, the two used the garage as their office to build the search engine.

Ms. Wojcicki, who had been working at Intel, soon joined Google as one of its earliest employees, and was its first marketing manager. Over the years, she reached its executive ranks, becoming Google’s most senior woman employee, eventually leading YouTube, which Google acquired in 2006, and which became one of the world’s largest social media companies.

Jay Kanter, whose long career as an agent to the stars — including Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe and Grace Kelly — and later as a studio executive made him one of the last of the generation of power brokers who dominated Hollywood in the late 20th century, died on August 6 at his home in Beverly Hills, CA. He was 97.

Among Mr. Kanter’s close friends was Mel Brooks. He joined Mr. Brooks, the director Paul Mazursky and a small group of other film industry insiders for a regular Friday lunch. The repast became legendary around Hollywood. He was there the Friday before his death, for a meal at Porta Via in Beverly Hills. Getting up after the meal, Mr. Kanter told his old friends, “See you guys next  week.”

Rabbi Shmuel Butman, who was the public face of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic sect during the antisemitic riots in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in 1991, and who every Hanukkah for decades saw that possibly the world’s largest menorah was illuminated in Central Park, died on July 22 in Manhattan. He was 81.

The announcement of his death on the Chabad community website recalled that Rabbi Butman had written The Rebbe in Paris, a book about Rabbi Menachem Schneerson’s three visits to the French capital; published a weekly pamphlet called “L’Chaim”; written a weekly column for The Jewish Press; and hosted a weekly program for COL-live.com, the Chabad-Lubavitch website.

Charlie Moss, the visionary advertising executive who produced the stunningly successful “I ❤ NY” tourism campaign in the mid-1970s, died on August 5 at his home in Wainscott, NY. He was 85. By 1983, the New York Times said that $3 billion in spending by tourists was directly attributed to the campaign.

Mr. Moss also conceived Alka-Seltzer’s popular “Plop, plop, fizz, fizz” jingle and the “Flick your Bic” slogan for Bic lighters. He helped Braniff International Airways bring about “the end of the plain lane” and declared Tic Tac “the original mouth whack.”