Myers, former Page One editor at WSJ, dies at 89
Henry F. Myers, remembered as one of the great Page One rewrite men during a 40-year Wall Street Journal career, died on Dec. 15 in Williamsburg, Virginia. He was 89. A graduate of Princeton...
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Virginia biz reporter dies at 57
Vic Bradshaw, a business reporter for The Daily News-Record in Harrisonburg, Virginia, died this week at the age of 57. A story in the Star reported, “Vic Bradshaw served two tenures at the Daily...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
