Michael Brick, a former reporter for The New York Times who covered crime in New York, education in Texas and extreme sports nationwide, died on Monday in Austin, Tex. He was 41.
The cause was colon cancer, said his wife, Stacy. At his death, Mr. Brick was a senior writer for The Houston Chronicle.
Mr. Brick started on the business desk at The Times in 2001 and helped cover the utility giant Enron’s collapse in a financial scandal. In 2005, he was sent to Louisiana to report on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina; he returned to New York to cover crime and the courts.