Kansas City Biz Journal reporter Roberts has died
Longtime Kansas City Business Journal reporter Rob Roberts died at his home early Monday. Business Journal editor Brian Kaberline writes, “In a career that spanned 38 years, Roberts worked at all levels of journalism, from reporter to editor to publisher and owner. He gained a reputation as a hard-driving journalist among Kansas City-area readers while […]
Former Reuters DC bureau chief dies at 86
Maurice Quaintance, the Reuters Washington bureau chief during the latter part of the 1970s when Jimmy Carter was in the White House, has died at the age of 86. A story on The Baron states, “As bureau chief, Quaintance helped supervise coverage of the 1976 presidential election which resulted in Carter, a Georgia peanut farmer, […]
Gatewood, prolific Newsday biz reporter, dies at 71
Dallas Gatewood III, a prolific former Newsday business reporter who chronicled how the economic downturn of the late 1980s devastated small farms on Long Island and across the country, has died at the age of 71. Robert Brodsky of Newsday writes, “Gatewood joined Newsday in 1974 as beat reporter in the Town of Babylon as a member […]
Ropa, publisher of Eau Claire biz publication, dies at 53
Dan Ropa, who published The Bottom Line business news publication in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, for nearly 30 years, died Tuesday at the age of 53. Samantha West of The Leader-Telegram writes, “‘Dan was such a great guy,’ said Linda John, executive director of Visit Eau Claire. ‘He was such a hustler — that’s the word that comes […]
Heffernan, former BusinessWeek Atlanta bureau chief, dies at 83
Tony Heffernan, who was the BusinessWeek Atlanta bureau chief and later the business editor of the Gwinnett Daily News, has died at the age of 83. Dan Kolber writes for the Atlanta Business Chronicle, “In 1970 he went to work for Reuters in New York City, his hometown. He was immediately dispatched to Ft. Benning, in […]
Husted, former Atlanta paper tech columnist, dies at 71
Bill Husted, former Technobuddy columnist at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, has died at the age of 71. Husted wrote the column for the business section for 15 years before accepting the paper’s buyout offer and leaving in August 2008. Husted started writing the Technobuddy column in 1993, and it appeared in newspapers around the country such […]
Connecticut biz reporter French dies at 71
Howard French, a longtime business reporter at the Journal Inquirer in Manchester, Connecticut, died Friday at age 71 after 34 years at the paper. Alex Wood of the Journal Inquirer writes, “French had been the JI’s business reporter for many of those years, and Harlan Levy, who worked with him in covering business, praised his skill […]
Lynch, Honolulu biz journalist, has died
Russ Lynch, who wrote an estimated 30,000 business news stories in his 37-year career with the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, has died at the age of 79. Lynch, a New Zealand native, retired from the paper in 2003. Lynch reported on the demise of Hawaii’s Big-Five, companies that were at once the backbone of life in the […]
Stancavage, longtime Tulsa World biz editor, dies at 59
John Stancavage, who was business editor of the Tulsa World from 1996 to 2013, died Friday at the age of 59. Tim Stanley of the World writes, “Stancavage had a 37-year association with the Tulsa World. He was best known as its award-winning business editor, a post he held from 1996 until 2013. He continued to […]
Longtime Washington Post auto writer Brown dies
Warren Brown, who covered the auto industry for more than 30 years for The Washington Post, died Thursday from kidney disease complications at the age of 70, reports Adam Bernstein of The Post. Bernstein writes, “A colleague advised him that to ‘make it’ at The Post, he should carve out a beat no one else […]
