Burnett remembers CNBC’s Haines
Erin Burnett, who co-anchored with Mark Haines on CNBC for five years, remembers her former colleague, who died one year ago this week.
Remembering The Economist’s Peter David
The latest issue of The Economist has a tribute to its Washington bureau chief, Peter David, who died earlier this month in a car accident. It states, “Had Peter David come to pen his parting thoughts, he might well have reflected on American exceptionalism. Sadly, this column must now celebrate his own. “To begin with […]
St. Louis Biz Journal reporter dies from pancreatic cancer
Rick Desloge, a reporter for the St. Louis Business Journal dating back to the 1980s, died Monday from pancreatic cancer. He was 63. A story on the paper’s web site states, “Mr. Desloge, who had worked at the St. Louis Business Journal since 1984, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer a year ago. He rarely missed […]
David, DC bureau chief for Economist, dies in car accident
Peter David, The Economist‘s Washington bureau chief and Lexington columnist, died in a car accident on Thursday night, reports Dylan Byers of Politico. David writes, “David had been with the London-based magazine for 28 years. He became British political editor and Bagehot columnist in 1998 and then foreign editor in 2001, before assuming the D.C. […]
Early CNBC commentator Shannon dies
Wayne Shannon, whose quirky “What’s It All Mean” commentaries were a staple in the early years of CNBC, was found dead at the age of 64. Scott Cohn, a senior correspondent for CNBC.com, writes, “Schetzle says Wayne Shannon died in an apparent suicide. An autopsy found no signs of physical trauma, but the coroner is […]
Iowa biz journal ME dies
Jim Pollock, the managing editor of the Des Moines Business Record, died Thursday due to complications from chemotherapy. He was 59. Chris Conetzkey, the editor of the Business Record, writes, “Jim had been with the company since April 2004, serving first as managing editor and then as the Business Record’s editor until May 2011, when […]
Former Post-Dispatch biz columnist, biz editor Kester dies at 96
William Kester, the former business editor and longtime business columnist at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, died Sunday at the age of 96. Michael D. Sorkin of the Post-Dispatch writes, “At the time, the afternoon Post-Dispatch carried little business news. Mr. Kester was the first reporter assigned to cover local business and financial developments, and he […]
Remembering Dave Morrow
Josh Dawsey, a senior at the University of South Carolina, was the inaugural recipient of the David Morrow Scholarship for Business Journalism, named after the former editor in chief of TheStreet.com. He received the award earlier this month at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers‘ annual conference in Indianapolis Dawsey writes about Morrow, […]
Former North Carolina biz editor dies
Tom Bost, the former business editor of The Sentinel in Winston-Salem, N.C., died recently at the age of 89. Paul Garber of The Winston-Salem Journal writes, “Bost earned a journalism degree from UNC Chapel Hill in 1944. Before joining the Journal in 1953, he had been a reporter for the Greensboro Daily News and also […]
Remembering Matt Walcoff of Bloomberg News
Luisa D’Amato, a columnist at The Record in Kitchener, Ontario, writes about Bloomberg News reporter Matt Walcoff, who died unexpectedly earlier this month and had worked at the paper. D’Amato writes, “Matt was in his late 30s, but he easily could have been 10 years younger or older. He was a brilliant journalist with a […]
