Felcyn, longtime BusinessWeek editor, has died

Keith Felcyn, a longtime editor at BusinessWeek magazine, died on Dec. 10 in Greenwich, Connecticut, where he lived since 1975.

He was 92.

Felcyn worked as a senior editor and chief of correspondents for BusinessWeek magazine for 41 years. He also was manager of the Milwaukee bureau and the Chicago bureau. While in Chicago, he was vice president of the Chicago Headline Club.

Covering a protest during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Felcyn and a photographer were teargassed by police.

As chief of correspondents, he oversaw the magazine’s bureaus across the country. Felcyn built an extraordinary network of correspondents over many years. That was the backbone of the magazine, the system that made its reporting so rich and deep. He had a great eye for talent, whether in bureau chiefs or correspondents, and was enormously skilled at nurturing folks.

He retired from the magazine in 1997.

Felcyn is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and recipient of a Professional Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University.

The family will hold a celebration of life service in late January.