# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rob-hiaasen
# Generated: 2026-08-20T19:58:10.990Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rob-hiaasen"
name: "Rob Hiaasen"
slug: "rob-hiaasen"
description: "Robert Keith Hiaasen was an American journalist and assistant editor at The Capital, a newspaper published in Annapolis, Maryland. He also taught at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism. A native of Plantation, then a rural suburb of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Hiaasen began his career at The Palm Beach Post before joining The Baltimore Sun as a feature writer and where he later wrote a regular column. He was shot and killed at work at The Capital during the Capital Gazette shooting."
tagline: "American journalist (1959-2018)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1959"
deathDate: "2018-06-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.36
  momentum:             0
  historical:           2.893702666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  53
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "روب هياسين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Hiaasen"
    title: "Rob Hiaasen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Hiaasen"
    title: "Rob Hiaasen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55264872"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations