Bre Bradham of the Duke Chronicle writes about business journalist Karen Blumenthal, who served as chair of its board and also worked at The Wall Street Journal but died last week at 61 from a heart...
Sarah Lorge Butler of Runners World writes about former AP deputy tech editor Nick Jesdanun, a runner who died last month from COVID-19. Butler writes, “After he started running in his 30s, the sport became...
Karen Blumenthal, the former business editor of the Dallas Morning News and Dallas bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, died Monday of a heart attack. She was 61. Maria Halkias and Cheryl Hall of the Morning...
Gil Schwartz, the longtime media executive who for two decades wrote columns for Fortune under the pen name “Stanley Bing,” died on Saturday. He was 68. Andrew Nusca of Fortune writes, “For 13 years,...
Mark Beech, a longtime Bloomberg News employee in London, has died. He was 60. Beech was a TV news editor and head of graphics for Bloomberg in London from January 1997 to January 2005....
Bill Voelker, a reporter who tackled topics ranging from milk pricing to levees during a 34-year career at The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune, died April 15 of complications of Alzheimer’s disease. He was 89. John...
Richard S. Holden, who retired in 2014 after 22 years as executive director of the Dow Jones News Fund and 19 years as an editor of The Wall Street Journal, died Wednesday in Morristown, New Jersey,...
Bill Bregar, who spent 31 years reporting on the plastics industry, died April 5 of an apparent heart attack at age 58. A story in Plastics News states, “Bregar was a plastics industry star,...
Earl Graves Sr., the founder and publisher of Black Enterprise, has died at the age of 85 from Alzheimer’s, reports Brett Molina of USA Today. Molina reports, “Graves Sr. founded Black Enterprise in 1970 as...
Associated Press deputy tech editor Nick Jesdanun has died from the coronavirus, numerous sources reported Friday. He was 51. AP national writer Ted Anthony writes, “Jesdanun, known as Nick, was the first AP reporter...
