Wisconsin biz journalist Cahalan has died
Steve Cahalan, who served as a news reporter in several Midwest locations for almost 50 years, but he was best known for his business column in the La Crosse Tribune that he wrote almost every week, died Sunday at the age of 73. Caden Perry of The Tribune writes, “He applied his family’s farming background to […]
Moskowitz, former Business Week staffer, dies at 90
Dan Moskowitz, a longtime Business Week reporter, died Oct. 29 at the age of 90. An obituary states, “All of this activity was a backdrop to his career as an accomplished journalist, who covered the Supreme Court for Business Week for many years, launched and edited the Business Week Newsletter for Family-Owned Businesses, and wrote the […]
Underwood, former Birmingham News biz editor, dies at 65
Jerry Underwood, a business reporter and business editor at the Birmingham News for more than two decades, died Sunday at the age of 65. Underwood was a business reporter from 1990 to 1998 for the News. He led coverage on many significant and complex stories, including Mercedes-Benz’s selection of Alabama for its first U.S. auto […]
Computerworld senior reporter Mearian has died
Computerworld senior reporter Lucas Mearian passed away suddenly last week. Ken Mingis and Sharon Machlis of Computerworld write, “After a nearly 10-year stint in the US Marine Corps and an early career in newspaper journalism, first as daily newspaper reporter and briefly as editor-in-chief at a local weekly paper, Lucas came to Computerworld in June 2000. He immediately began digging […]
Power, longtime BusinessWeek journalist, has died
Chris Power, a longtime journalist at BusinessWeek magazine, died Monday night. Power had been assistant managing editor for international coverage. Based in New York, Power was responsible for overseeing international coverage in BusinessWeek’s global print edition, managing and collaborating with both print and online editors. “Chris was one of the most brilliant people I’ve ever known […]
OC Biz Journal reporter Rohit dies of heart attack
Parimal M. Rohit, a reporter who covered real estate for the Orange County Business Journal, died Tuesday from a heart attack. A story on its website states, “‘Parimal’s death was sudden and a shock to all on our staff,’ said Peter J. Brennan, Editor in Chief of the Business Journal. ‘He is missed by everyone […]
Mitchell, former Dallas News biz reporter, dies at 71
Jim Mitchell, a business reporter for the Dallas Morning News form 1984 to 1998 before he moved to its editorial board, died Tuesday from prostate cancer at the age of 71. Cheryl Hall of the Morning News writes, “Mitchell’s second job out of college was with The Dallas Morning News. “‘Jim was on the vanguard of […]
Phillips, who covered transportation, dies at 83
Donald Phillips, who covered the transportation industry for nearly 20 years at The Washington Post and then the International Herald-Tribune, died Sept. 23 at the age of 83. Kevin Keefe of Trains.com writes, “Phillips gained national prominence as a transportation writer when he joined the Washington Post in 1986, working there 19 years. After leaving the Post he spent nearly […]
How Clements broke through jargon and empty verbiage
Jason Zweig of The Wall Street Journal writes about the paper’s former personal finance columnist, Jonathan Clements, who died last Sunday at the age of 62. Zweig writes, “When Jonathan started writing for the Journal, those claims weren’t just common. They were treated as gospel, chanted into the ears of every investor by the entire financial industry. “Jonathan […]
How Clements started writing his WSJ personal finance column
Former Wall Street Journal personal finance columnist Jonathan Clements, who died Sunday, wrote a farewell message on his Humble Dollar website. Clements wrote, “Still, in 1994, Managing Editor Paul Steiger said he’d consider a few columnists for the Journal’s news pages. At age 31, and with some trepidation, I put up my hand. Thus was born the Getting Going column, […]
