Welles, Loeb winner, dies at 75
Edward Welles, a Gerald Loeb Award winner and longtime staff writer at Inc. magazine, died Aug. 9 at the age of 75. An obituary states, “He began his professional journey crafting captions for National Geographic and writing freelance articles for the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and Audubon Magazine. His career brought him to California, […]
Remembering Portland Biz Journal reporter Brenneman
Andy Giegerich, managing editor of the Portland Business Journal, remembers Kristina Brenneman, a former Business Journal reporter who recently died. Giegerich writes, “For those flipping through our pages or scrolling our site, bylines, or the names of writers, tend to come and go. Kris had worked in the newsletter world before joining the PBJ newsroom. When […]
Former Pennsylvania biz editor dies at 91
Mario Mullig, former business reporter and business editor of the Washington Observer-Reporter newspaper in Pennsylvania, died on Aug. 22 at the age of 91. An obituary states, “Using the professional name Bob Coleman, Mario worked as a radio announcer and disc jockey at WCVI in Connellsville and WKIN and WACB in Kittanning. In 1955, Mario […]
Why readers loved tech journalist Dvorak
Michael Miller writes for PCMag about legendary technology journalist John C. Dvorak, who died last week at 80 and was edited by Miller. Miller writes, “After I joined PC Magazine in 1991, I got to know John a lot better. He wrote two columns for the magazine: a main essay column under his name and Inside Track. Each appeared […]
Remembering the graciousness of Om Malik
Axios business editor Dan Primack writes about former technology journalist Om Malik, who died Wednesday at the age of 59. Primack writes, “Social media is full of such sentiments, but I wanted to share two particular remembrances. The first from Katie Fehrenbacher, an Axios Pro reporter who was part of the original Gigaom team. The second from Kara Swisher, who was in […]
Tech journalist Malik dies at 59
Om Malik, a longtime technology journalist who later became a venture capitalist, died on Wednesday. He was 59. He was the founder of tech news site GigaOm, which he ran from 2001 to 2013. Malik was also a senior writer for Forbes, Red Herring and Business 2.0. Since then, he was a partner in True […]
Remembering former IBJ editor Greg Andrews
Hayleigh Colombo of The Indianapolis Star writes about her former editor, Indianapolis Business Journal’s Greg Andrews, who died last month at the age of 60. Colombo writes, “With his head pointed down at the floor, he’d briskly walk up and down the long hallways at the old IBJ offices at 41 E. Washington St. Sometimes he’d look up […]
Andrews, longtime Indy Biz Journal editor, dies at 60
Greg Andrews, former editor of the Indianapolis Business Journal and business editor of the Indianapolis Star, died May 20 at the age of 60. An obituary states, “Though Greg preferred working behind the scenes, his influence on Indiana journalism was substantial. During nearly 30 years at the Indianapolis Business Journal, he rose from reporter to […]
Inman, FT Style Guide author, dies at 87
Colin Inman, the author of the first FT Style Guide, has died at the age of 87. Roger Blitz of The Financial Times writes, “As author of the first FT Style Guide, the newspaper’s in-house bible, Inman set the template for grammar in every article: how journalists should use words and phrases, abbreviations, proper names, punctuation, […]
Bolante, Puget Sound Business Journal photographer, dies at 58
Anthony Bolante, the award-winning Puget Sound Business Journal photographer, died Thursday due to complications following a stroke. He was 58. Editor in chief Ryan Lambert writes, “Bolante joined the Business Journal in 2011 as a seasoned photojournalist who had built an extensive portfolio through his work with Reuters, Getty Images, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Bellevue Journal-American and […]
