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 […]
San Diego biz reporter Bigelow is remembered
Peter Rowe of the San Diego Union-Tribune writes about former UT business reporter Bruce Bigelow, who died last week at the age of 63. Rowe writes, “At the Union-Tribune, Bigelow was known for in-depth business coverage. His 14-part 1997 series about a North County startup, ‘The Toymaker,’ required more than 100 interviews conducted over a two-and-a-half year […]
Xconomy’s Bigelow dies at 63
Bruce Bigelow, a journalist for tech news site Xconomy in San Diego, died after a brief illness at the age of 63. Bob Buderi, Xconomy’s editor in chief, wrote, “We are a close-knit team despite being spread out around the country, and just two weeks ago several of us had the rare pleasure of catching up […]
Auto reporter Tierney dies from Parkinson’s disease
Longtime automotive industry reporter Christine Tierney died last week at the age of 60 from Parkinson’s disease. Tierney covered the auto industry for nearly 20 years from Paris, Frankfurt and Detroit, winning awards for breaking news and in-depth projects. I She wrote stories ranging from GM’s bankruptcy to the breakup of DaimlerChrysler and a resurgent Volkswagen’s goal […]
Watson, former SABEW executive director, dies at 67
Warren Watson, who was executive director of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers from 2009 to 2014, died Sunday at the age of 67. Watson had been suffering from complications related to diabetes. Watson was hired to relocate the SABEW headquarters office from the University of Missouri to Arizona State University’s Cronkite School in September […]
