Daniela Petroff, AP’s longtime Vatican reporter, dies at 80

ROME — Daniela Petroff, who helped shape The Associated Press’s fashion and Vatican coverage for nearly four decades with style, authority and wit, has died in Rome. She was 80.

Petroff died Tuesday at home, where she was recovering from a fall, said her husband, Victor Simpson, the retired AP Rome bureau chief.

Petroff worked for The Chicago Tribune and Time magazine in Rome before moving onto the AP as a Vatican reporter and Milan fashion correspondent. She launched...