Brick, covered Enron for NY Times, dies at 41
Michael Brick, a business journalist for TheStreet.com and the New York Times, died early Monday from colon cancer. He was 41. Daniel Slotnick of The Times writes, “At his death Mr. Brick was a senior writer for The Houston Chronicle. “Mr. Brick started on the business desk at The Times in 2001 and helped cover […]
Remembering consumer writer Mitch Lipka
Priyanka Dayal McCluskey of the Boston Globe writes about consumer writer Mitch Lipka, who died Monday at the age of 53 from sarcoma. McCluskey writes, “Mr. Lipka, of Worcester, had a three-decade career in journalism. He found a niche as a consumer reporter, often focusing on product safety and fraud. Friends and colleagues recalled him as […]
Reuters consumer columnist Lipka dies
Mitch Lipka, a consumer columnist for Reuters and other media organizations, died Tuesday from complications related to sarcoma. He was 53. Lauren Young, the Money editor at Reuters, wrote, “I never met Mitch in person, but he was someone who was part of my daily work life since 2011. We talked and emailed each other […]
Institutional Investor founder Kaplan dies at 74
Gilbert Kaplan, founder and longtime chief executive of Institutional Investor, a monthly magazine for pension fund and asset managers, died at the age of 74. Margalit Fox of the New York Times writes, “He soon became conscious of the importance of money managers in financial markets — and of a gap in the marketplace when it […]
Denver biz journalist Parker has died
Penny Parker, a business journalist for the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post, has died at the age of 62. Bruce Finley of the Post writes, “She joined The Denver Post as a features reporter in the early 1990s, then moved to the business department. She jumped to the rival Rocky Mountain News to be […]
Fandell, former WSJ and Advertising Age journalist, dies at 79
Todd Fandell, a business journalist for The Wall Street Journal and Advertising Age, died Dec. 15 at the age of 79. Bob Goldsborough of the Chicago Tribune writes, “In 1963, the Wall Street Journal hired Fandell as a Chicago-based reporter. “‘He had a lovely group of mentors there. He really learned a lot at the Wall […]
Remembering MarketWatch’s Jim Jelter
Shawn Langlois, a markets reporter at MarketWatch.com, writes Thursday about Jim Jelter, his co-worker who died Wednesday at the age of 62. Langlois writes, “When Jim started his gig in San Francisco, the MarketWatch newsroom couldn’t help but eavesdrop on the phone conversations he fluently conducted in Norwegian. He was probably talking about sailing or […]
Longtime business journalist Jelter dies from cancer
Business journalist Jim Jelter died Wednesday morning in his native Walnut Creek, Calif., at home with family after battling cancer. Jelter was deputy investing/corporate news editor for MarketWatch.com based in San Francisco, a position he held for more than a decade. The investing/corporate news team reports on more than 150 companies, including some of the […]
Tech journalists remember pioneer WIldstrom
Here are some of the comments posted by technology journalists about Steve Wildstrom, whose “Technology & You” column ran in BusinessWeek from 1994 to 2009. Robert Scoble, who wrote the tech blog Scobleizer: Steve Wildstrom was one of the nice guys. I enjoyed going to Germany with him, covering the IFA show together. He was a […]
Wildstrom, well-known tech journalist, dies
Steve Wildstrom, a long-time BusinessWeek columnist and one of the first journalists to focus primarily on technology, died on Nov. 24 of brain cancer. John Biggs of TechCrunch writes, “Wildstrom wrote the Technology & You for Business Week from 1994 to 2009. He was a larger-than-life figure in the world of journalism and, more specifically, tech […]
