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 […]
What a PR person learned from a business reporter
Melinda Williams, a public relations executive in suburban Philadelphia, writes about what she learned from Daily Local News business reporter Gretchen Metz, who died last week from pancreatic cancer. Williams writes, “Since most of my public relations accounts in Chester County fell into the business category, I had the opportunity to get to know the […]
Pennsylvania business reporter dies at 64
Gretchen Metz, a business reporter for the Daily Local News in West Chester, Pa., for more than 24 yares has died this week from pancreatic cancer. She was 64. Michael Rellahan of the paper writes, “Metz covered every facet of business in the county during its period of enormous economic growth — from the opening […]
Aiken, former Cincy Enquirer biz editor, dies at 77
Scott Aiken, who was the business editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer in the 1970s, died Wednesday at the age of 77. Sheila McLaughlin of the Enquirer writes, “As business editor at The Enquirer, Mr. Aiken is credited with making that section more in-depth. “‘He got the business section onto a really good path,’ said Luke […]
Maya Jackson Randall remembered by her editor
Maya Jackson Randall, one of my star reporters at the Dow Jones Newswires/Wall Street Journal Washington bureau, died this week after a long fight with leukemia. Just 33 years old, Maya possessed a remarkable blend of dignity, calm and determination. All of us who knew her feel a great loss this week. (The photo is […]
