Homans, editor of Vanity Fair’s The Hive, has died
John Homans, editor of Vanity Fair’s widely read media, business and technology sub-section The Hive, died Wednesday at the age of 62. “There just aren’t many people like Homans in our business,” wrote Michael Calderone, a senior editor at The Hive, on Twitter. Homans was the executive editor of New York magazine from 1994 to […]
Daily Herald biz columnist Kendall passes away
Jim Kendall, business columnist for the Daily Herald and the Daily Herald Business Ledger over the past 16 years, passed away on July 23. He wrote 740 columns for the two Daily Herald Media Group publications and his “On Small Business” columns acted as a guide for small business entrepreneurs through complex issues. Kendall was also […]
Wagnon, former Arkansas Business editor, dies at 68
Ted Wagnon, a former editor of Arkansas Business who put the publication on the map with an expose of a proposed high-tech industrial park that turned out to be a scam, died Saturday at the age of 68. Kyle Massey of Arkansas Business writes, “‘That’s when we first earned our stripes as credible journalists,’ said Farrell, […]
Regis, former editor at WSJ, dies at 67
Rich Regis, a former editor at The Wall Street Journal, died last week at the age of 67. Regis had suffered from pulmonary disease related to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center near the Journal offices. Shortly after the attack, he had been hospitalized for vasculitis, a potentially fatal respiratory illness […]
Remembering business journalist Karen Blumenthal
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 attack. Bradham writes, “Blumenthal and Scott McCartney traveled to Duke frequently this past semester to co-teach a business journalism class in […]
Remembering AP deputy tech editor Jesdanun, a runner
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 embedded in his life. He ran to work at the Associated Press, where he was a technology writer. He’d run home. […]
Biz journalist Blumenthal dies at 61
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 News write, “At Duke University, she was editor of The Chronicle. She worked at The Dallas Morning News as an intern and staff writer […]
Former Fortune columnist “Stanley Bing” dies at 68
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, the New York City native secretly and successfully skewered office life in the pages of Esquire magazine under the byline ‘Stanley […]
Beech, longtime Bloomberg News employee, dies at 60
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. He then was head of Bloomberg Muse in Europe and Asia, and then globally, until leaving the company in 2015. Beech […]
New Orleans biz reporter Voelker dies at 89
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 Pope of The Times-Picayune writes, “‘He was a really intense, really intelligent kind of guy who could take these really complicated […]
