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 […]
Austin Kiplinger dies at 97
Austin Kiplinger, the longtime chairman and editor-in-chief of a financial publishing company that bore his name, has died at the age of 97, reports Ben Nuckols of the Associated Press. Nuckols writes, “A prominent figure in Washington journalism and civic life, Kiplinger led the publishing company founded by his father for nearly 35 years. Before taking over […]
Newman, ex-Bloomberg employee, dies
Scott Newman, who was the primary contact at Bloomberg for many daily newspaper business editors for more than a decade, has died. Newman, who worked at Bloomberg for 14 years, left Bloomberg in 2011. Before leaving, Newman was director of content syndication at Bloomberg, working with media organizations to develop partnership ideas with Bloomberg. He was […]
Teller, former Philly Inquirer deputy biz editor, dies at 99
Oscar Teller, who was the real estate editor and deputy business editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer, has died at the age of 99. Bonnie Cook of The Inquirer writes, “Mr. Teller was the paper’s real estate editor for two decades, and worked for a time as deputy business editor. He retired in 1977 after a 30-year career. […]
Born, former WSJ and Barron’s reporter, dies at 95
Roscoe Born, who wrote for The Wall Street Journal and Barron’s out of their Washington bureaus, died Sept. 30 at the age of 95. Tim Hrenchir of the Topeka (Kans.) Capital-Journal writes, “He left the State Journal in August 1957 to join the Washington, D.C., Bureau of the Wall Street Journal. The State Journal, an afternoon […]
