Pyatt, Washington Post local biz columnist, dies at 88
Rudolph A. Pyatt Jr., a Washington Post local business columnist who retired in 2000 after 19 years writing a twice-weekly column, died earlier this month at 88. Washington Post reporter Bart Barnes writes, “Mr. Pyatt was among an early corps of Black journalists that cracked the segregation barriers of Southern newspapers when he began his career in […]
Deutsch, longtime NY Times biz reporter, dies
Claudia Deutsch, a former business reporter at the New York Times, has died at the age of 74 from cancer. Deutsch was a business reporter at the Times from 1984 until 2008. Preceding that, she had been the environmental editor and then management editor at Business Week. She earned the 1974 Jesse Neal Award for […]
Teachout, WSJ drama critic and columnist, dies at 65
Terry Teachout, the longtime drama critic and cultural columnist for The Wall Street Journal, died Thursday at the age of 65. An editorial board story states, “His prose was always lively and accessible, and in his judgments he was clear-eyed, uninterested in conventional wisdom, and committed to assessing each production on its merits. He believed […]
Howard, Reuters storytelling editor, dies at 59
Kari Howard, a storytelling editor at Reuters for the past four years, died Monday of cancer at the age of 59. Christopher Goffard of the Los Angeles Times writes, “Howard went on to edit Storyboard, the narrative website of the Nieman Foundation, and in early 2018 became the London-based storytelling editor at the Reuters news […]
Longtime biz journalist Tejada has died
Carlos Tejada, a business journalist for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, died this past weekend of a heart attack. He was 49. He most recently was deputy Asia editor for The Times, but had been its Asia business editor. Tejada spent two decades at The Wall Street Journal as a reporter […]
Cummins, former Newsday biz journalist, dies at 70
Harriet Jane Cummins, who worked at Newsday as a business reporter, editor and columnist, died last week at the age of 70. John Asbury of Newsday reports, “She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska and her Masters in English Literature from Creighton University in Omaha. “She worked for the Fort Myers News-Press […]
Youngblood, longtime Star Tribune biz columnist, dies at 85
Dick Youngblood, a longtime business columnist and editor for the Minneapolis Star Tribune who wrote up to three columns weekly from 1983 until his retirement in 1998, died last month at the age of 85. Neal St. Anthony of the Star Tribune writes, “In the 1970s, Youngblood pioneered an annual special section about executive compensation. […]
Nadeau, former Canadian biz journalist, has died
Michel Nadeau, a business journalist for Canadian publication Le Devoir in the 1970s and 1980s, has died. After journalism, he became an executive with Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, which managed funds for public retirement and insurance plans. A Montreal Gazette story states, “Nadeau was a promoter and champion of Quebec’s economy and […]
Carter, founding staff at Market News International, dies at 66
John Carter, a senior editor at the South China Morning Post and a founding staff member of Market News International, passed away in the United States on Friday after a short illness. He was 66. Carter joined the Morning Post in the summer of 2018 and was initially jointly in charge of a team of […]
Hazlett, former WaPo biz copy editor and Maine biz editor, dies at 68
Curt Hazlett, who was a business copy editor for The Washington Post and then business editor of The Portland Press Herald in Maine, died last week at the age of 68. Dennis Hoey of the Press Herald writes, “Hazlett graduated in 1975 with a degree in journalism from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. […]
