Richard David Story (1952 – 5 March 2021) was an American journalist and magazine editor who was the editor-in-chief of Departures from 2000 to 2017.
Story was born in Oklahoma City and was educated at Northwest Classen High School. He graduated magna cum laude from Williams College in 1974.
After graduating from Williams, Story began his editorial career as a fact checker at Reader's Digest. From 1983 to 1987, he was an entertainment reporter at USA Today. By 1989, he was a senior editor at New York magazine.
In 2000, Story joined Departures and remained its editor-in-chief for 17 years. In 2014, he wrote The World of Departures, a retrospective published with Assouline to mark the magazine's 25th anniversary. After leaving Departures in 2017, he wrote for Town & Country and contributed a travel column to Air Mail.
Story was inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame in 1989.
At Esquire, Story met Jennifer Crandall, who became his wife. They had a son, Zachary. He died in New York City on 5 March 2021, aged 68.
