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...
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,...
Bill Bregar, who spent 31 years reporting on the plastics industry, died April 5 of an apparent heart attack at age 58. A story in Plastics News states, “Bregar was a plastics industry star,...
Earl Graves Sr., the founder and publisher of Black Enterprise, has died at the age of 85 from Alzheimer’s, reports Brett Molina of USA Today. Molina reports, “Graves Sr. founded Black Enterprise in 1970 as...
Associated Press deputy tech editor Nick Jesdanun has died from the coronavirus, numerous sources reported Friday. He was 51. AP national writer Ted Anthony writes, “Jesdanun, known as Nick, was the first AP reporter...
Bruce Little, a reporter whose “Amazing Facts” column in The Globe and Mail tracked Canada’s political leaders, central bankers and their economic policies, died earlier this month at the age of 74 after a...
Barry Maggs, an editor who had worked at Bloomberg Businessweek magazine for the past 22 years, died Saturday at the age of 55 from cancer. Maggs joined Businessweek in 1998 when it was still...
Michael Babad, a longtime Canadian business journalist who was at The Globe and Mail in Toronto, died Thursday at 66 from cancer. Andrew WIllis of The Globe and Mail writes, “For much of his career,...
Charles Trimble, an Oglala Lakota journalist, a former leader of the National Congress of American Indians and founder of the American Indian Press Association has died at the age of 84. Trimble passed away...
Former Columbus Dispatch business editor Diana Britt Franklin died Monday after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. She was 87. Luke Feck and Chris Amatos write, “Franklin, born Peter D. Franklin in Bournemouth, England, in May 1932,...
