Sid Yudain

Sidney Lawrence "Sid" Yudain (May 6, 1923 – October 20, 2013) was an American journalist who founded Roll Call in 1955 as a community newspaper focused on the United States Congress and Capitol Hill. Yudain published the first issue of Roll Call June 16, 1955, with an initial printing of 10,000 copies. Roll Call currently publishes four issues per week, with a circulation of more than 22,000, as of October 2013. The owner of a retail real estate in Stamford, CT and New Canaan, CT, the father later also established a real estate brokerage firm.

Yudain died from liver cancer on the morning of October 20, 2013, at his home in Arlington, Virginia, at the age 90. and a memorial service was held at the National Press Club.