The legacy of Alan Abelson’s life
John Kostrzewa, the business editor of the Providence Journal, writes about the biggest legacy that Barron’s columnist Alan Abelson leaves the world of financial journalism. Kostrzewa writes, “But in reading his obituary, here’s what caught my eye. He grew up in Queens and studied chemistry and English at City College of New York before earning […]
Why we will all miss Alan Abelson
Brooke Southall of RIABiz.com writes about why readers of Barron’s will really miss columnist Alan Abelson, who died earlier this week. Southall writes, “Often things happen on Fridays and his columns that appeared Saturday mornings always seemed to assimilate late-breaking reality —without the sense of last-minute appending. I often coughed up the five bucks for […]
Former Arizona biz columnist Heltsley dies
Ernie Heltsley, a business columnist and real estate reporter for the Arizona Daily Star, died May 4 in a hospice at age 79, reports the newspaper. Carmen Duarte writes, “John Bolton, who was Heltsley’s editor for several years, said he was a tenacious investigative reporter with deep knowledge about the key local players in business […]
Former KC Star biz editor Miller dies
Janet Miller, a former business editor of The Kansas City Star and Times, died Thursday. She was 65. A story in the Star stated, “Miller, who was 65, joined the newspaper in 1969 as a business reporter and copy editor. Part of her beat involved covering the Kansas City Stockyards. “Four years later, Miller was […]
Abelson could move stock prices
The writer who critiqued Wall Street and companies the most during the last 30 years of the 20th century was Alan Abelson of Barron’s, whose death at age 87 was announced on Thursday. While the stock market rose to new heights for most of the 1990s, Abelson criticized the run-up on almost a weekly basis. […]
Abelson was one of the greatest market commentators
Joshua Brown of The Reformed Broker writes Thursday about Barron’s columnist Alan Abelson, who has died at the age of 87. Brown writes, “He was one of the greatest market commentators, financial writers and teachers in the history of Wall Street. There will be many eulogies for and remembrances of Alan this weekend, I am […]
Biz journalism legend Abelson has died
Business journalism legend Alan Abelson, who worked for Barron’s for the past 57 years, has died. Barron’s editor Ed Finn writes, “For many readers, there can be no substitute for Alan’s witty, wise and wonderfully written comments each week in Up and Down Wall Street. But Alan’s contributions to Barron’s, and to financial journalism, go […]
Bancroft member who sold WSJ dies
William Cox Jr., a senior member of the Bancroft family that sold The Wall Street Journal to News Corp. in 2007, died at 82, according to people close to the family. Martin Peers and Stephen Miller of The Journal write, “Mr. Cox, who spent his career at The Wall Street Journal as an advertising and […]
Reuters posts Soros obituary; he’s not dead yet
Simon Neville of The Guardian reports that Reuters inadvertantly posted an obituary of investor George Soros on Thursday despite his remaining very much alive. Neville writes, “Published for 30 minutes on Thursday night, it starts: ‘George Soros, who died XXX at age XXX, was a predatory and hugely successful financier and investor, who argued paradoxically […]
Ex-Newsweek biz writer dies at 90
Gerald Barry, a business journalist for Newsweek in the 1960s, died last week in Greenwich Village at the age of 90. Albert Amateau of The Villager writes, ‘In the 1950s, he worked for International News Service, a Hearst wire service, in Hartford, Conn., and when I.N.S. merged with United Press as U.P.I. he worked as […]
