Christopher Byron, a prize-winning business journalist and New York Times best-selling author, died Saturday night. He was 72. From 1995 to 2000, his “Back of the Envelope” column in the New York Observer exposed the...
F. Ross Johnson, the chief executive officer of RJR Nabisco whose takeover attempt of the company in 1988 introduced society to leveraged buyouts, has died at the age of 85. Ken Sweet of the Associated...
Robert Gibbens, the longtime business editor at the Montreal Star, died Saturday at the age of 92. Bryan Demchinsky and Graeme Hamilton of the Financial Post write, “Gibbens, who died Saturday at age 92 from complications...
Jack Eugene Patterson, who served Business Week magazine as its Atlanta bureau chief and later the editor of its editorial page, died Monday at the age of 91 in Maine. Patterson joined the McGraw-Hill...
Steve Shepard, who was editor in chief of Businessweek from 1984 to 2005, wrote the following for Talking Biz News following the death of Jack Patterson, a former Businessweek reporter and editor, this week at...
Peter Binzen, a business columnist for the Philadelphia Bulletin and then the Philadelphia Inquirer in the 1980s and 1990s, died Wednesday at the age of 94, reports Bonnie Cook of the Inquirer. Cook writes,...
Reuters editor in chief Steve Adler sent the following message to the editorial staff: Dear colleagues, It’s with great sadness that I have to share with you the terrible news that Jonathan Gould, our...
Loren Steffy, a former colleague of Bloomberg News reporter Darrell Preston who died on Monday, remembers his friend. Steffy writes, “On my first day at the Dallas Business Journal in 1989, he took me in...
Darrell Preston, a longtime business journalist who had been with Bloomberg News for the past 16 years, died on Monday at the age of 55. Preston had been with Bloomberg since November 2000, working...
David Bunnell, the founder of PC Magazine, PC World and MacWorld magazine, has died at the age of 69. Harry McCracken of Fast Company writes, “Bunnell wanted a share of ownership in Personal Computing; when...
