Frank Lalli, a former investigative reporter at Forbes and managing editor at Money from 1987 to 1998, has died.
Michele Willens of Our Town writes, “He pushed me, but in a good way, and sure enough, that work had impact. Then, when I moved to New York, he insisted I come work for him at Money magazine. I said, ‘Frank, the only bond I know anything about is James.’ He said, ‘that’s why we want you. You write in a way readers can relate to.’
“One of my colleagues was Gretchen Morgenson who went on to a big career as a financial reporter. Her memories? ‘His enthusiasm for a story was childlike and charming and his smile was incandescent,’ she says. ‘Unlike so many editors, Frank owned up to his mistakes: when I departed Money in 1986 for Forbes, Frank’s former stomping grounds, he warned me not to go. The place would ‘chew you up and spit you out,’ he proclaimed. It didn’t quite turn out that way and whenever I’d run into Frank in later years, he’d invariably stride up to me with his huge grin, arms out, saying ‘I was so wrong!'”
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