Daily Herald biz columnist Kendall passes away
Jim Kendall, business columnist for the Daily Herald and the Daily Herald Business Ledger over the past 16 years, passed away on July 23. He wrote 740 columns for the two Daily Herald Media Group...
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Wagnon, former Arkansas Business editor, dies at 68
Ted Wagnon, a former editor of Arkansas Business who put the publication on the map with an expose of a proposed high-tech industrial park that turned out to be a scam, died Saturday at...
Regis, former editor at WSJ, dies at 67
Rich Regis, a former editor at The Wall Street Journal, died last week at the age of 67. Regis had suffered from pulmonary disease related to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World...
Remembering business journalist Karen Blumenthal
Bre Bradham of the Duke Chronicle writes about business journalist Karen Blumenthal, who served as chair of its board and also worked at The Wall Street Journal but died last week at 61 from a heart...
Remembering AP deputy tech editor Jesdanun, a runner
Sarah Lorge Butler of Runners World writes about former AP deputy tech editor Nick Jesdanun, a runner who died last month from COVID-19. Butler writes, “After he started running in his 30s, the sport became...
Biz journalist Blumenthal dies at 61
Karen Blumenthal, the former business editor of the Dallas Morning News and Dallas bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, died Monday of a heart attack. She was 61. Maria Halkias and Cheryl Hall of the Morning...
Former Fortune columnist “Stanley Bing” dies at 68
Gil Schwartz, the longtime media executive who for two decades wrote columns for Fortune under the pen name “Stanley Bing,” died on Saturday. He was 68. Andrew Nusca of Fortune writes, “For 13 years,...
Beech, longtime Bloomberg News employee, dies at 60
Mark Beech, a longtime Bloomberg News employee in London, has died. He was 60. Beech was a TV news editor and head of graphics for Bloomberg in London from January 1997 to January 2005....
New Orleans biz reporter Voelker dies at 89
Bill Voelker, a reporter who tackled topics ranging from milk pricing to levees during a 34-year career at The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune, died April 15 of complications of Alzheimer’s disease. He was 89. John...
Holden, former Dow Jones News Fund executive director and WSJ editor, dies at 70
Richard S. Holden, who retired in 2014 after 22 years as executive director of the Dow Jones News Fund and 19 years as an editor of The Wall Street Journal, died Wednesday in Morristown, New Jersey,...
