Former KC Star biz editor Miller dies
Janet Miller, a former business editor of The Kansas City Star and Times, died Thursday. She was 65. A story in the Star stated, “Miller, who was 65, joined the newspaper in 1969 as...
Janet Miller, a former business editor of The Kansas City Star and Times, died Thursday. She was 65. A story in the Star stated, “Miller, who was 65, joined the newspaper in 1969 as...
The writer who critiqued Wall Street and companies the most during the last 30 years of the 20th century was Alan Abelson of Barron’s, whose death at age 87 was announced on Thursday. While...
Joshua Brown of The Reformed Broker writes Thursday about Barron’s columnist Alan Abelson, who has died at the age of 87. Brown writes, “He was one of the greatest market commentators, financial writers and...
Business journalism legend Alan Abelson, who worked for Barron’s for the past 57 years, has died. Barron’s editor Ed Finn writes, “For many readers, there can be no substitute for Alan’s witty, wise and...
William Cox Jr., a senior member of the Bancroft family that sold The Wall Street Journal to News Corp. in 2007, died at 82, according to people close to the family. Martin Peers and...
Simon Neville of The Guardian reports that Reuters inadvertantly posted an obituary of investor George Soros on Thursday despite his remaining very much alive. Neville writes, “Published for 30 minutes on Thursday night, it...
Gerald Barry, a business journalist for Newsweek in the 1960s, died last week in Greenwich Village at the age of 90. Albert Amateau of The Villager writes, ‘In the 1950s, he worked for International...
Melinda Williams, a public relations executive in suburban Philadelphia, writes about what she learned from Daily Local News business reporter Gretchen Metz, who died last week from pancreatic cancer. Williams writes, “Since most of...
Gretchen Metz, a business reporter for the Daily Local News in West Chester, Pa., for more than 24 yares has died this week from pancreatic cancer. She was 64. Michael Rellahan of the paper...
Scott Aiken, who was the business editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer in the 1970s, died Wednesday at the age of 77. Sheila McLaughlin of the Enquirer writes, “As business editor at The Enquirer, Mr....