Thomas S. Brown, former business editor and writer for The Daytona Beach News-Journal, died Sunday at the age of 79 after a long illness.
At The News-Journal, he supervised five reporters and planned business news coverage.
An obituary states, “His 38-year career in journalism included 11 years with Associated Press bureaus in Albany, N.Y., Buffalo, Springfield, Mass., and Boston, followed by eight years with the Providence Journal in Rhode Island. He joined the Daytona newspaper in 1990 and retired in 2008.
“As a business writer in Florida, he won state awards for his coverage of banking and personal finance. While with AP, he covered the Massachusetts legislature.
In retirement, he helped organize legal efforts to strengthen the News- Journal’s ailing pension fund. He petitioned the U.S. District Court in Orlando to join a pending case without a lawyer.
“Brown and former colleague Emery Jeffreys pooled their funds and found lawyer Martha A. Chapman to represent 1,100 News-Journal workers. Cox Newspapers in Atlanta argued against the petition. U.S. District Judge John Antoon rejected the Cox arguments to reject the petition.”
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