Bloomberg reporter in Toronto dies
Bloomberg News editor in chief Matthew Winkler sent out the following to the staff on Wednesday: It is with much sadness that we tell you of the passing yesterday of our friend and colleague Matt Walcoff. Matt joined Bloomberg in 2009 as a reporter in the Toronto bureau and truly exemplified the Bloomberg spirit. He […]
From financial futures to front-page features
John Bussey of The Wall Street Journal remembers how The Journal’s Jeff Zaslow, who died last week, made the transition from covering business news to other topics. Bussey writes, “Hello, I’m here on behalf of Jeff’s many friends at the Wall Street Journal. “I met Jeff on my first day with the Journal in the […]
Columnist group names scholarship after WSJ’s Zaslow
Columnists, indeed journalists and all of America, lost a strong voice with the death on Feb. 10 of Jeffrey Zaslow, best-selling author and “Moving On” columnist of The Wall Street Journal. The National Society of Newspaper Columnists Education Foundation now honors Zaslow by naming its scholarship program after him. The Jeff Zaslow College Columnist Award […]
Post on the Zaslow remembrance page
Remembering Jeffrey Zaslow
Kelsey Hubbard spoke to Wall Street Journal deputy managing editor Mike Miller about the beloved journalist Jeffrey Zaslow, whose work touched and inspired millions of people around the world. Zaslow died Friday in a car accident in Michigan.
WSJ reporter Zaslow dies in crash
Wall Street Journal reporter Jeffrey Zaslow, who wrote some of the paper’s most memorable front-page features and became a best-selling author, died in a car crash Friday morning at age 53. A story on the Journal website states, “Mr. Zaslow was a Journal reporter from 1983 to 1987 when his career took a remarkable turn. […]
Remembering Danny Pearl
Daniel Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter, was killed 10 years ago this week in Pakistan while he was the South Asia bureau chief of the paper. If you do not know who he was, spend some time reading these articles and listen to this recording. I met Danny once, when he worked in Atlanta […]
Former BusinessWeek chief economist Wolman dies
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE William “Bill” Wolman, a long time chief economist at BusinessWeek magazine, and a frequent commentator on CNBC, died earlier this month, according to former BusinessWeek staffers. In his career, Wolman received a number of awards. The magazine’s 1980 “Reindustrialization of America” special issue garnered Wolman a National Magazine Award for best […]
Simpson, covered Las Vegas gaming industry, dies at 51
Jeff Simpson, who covered the gambling industry for both Las Vegas newspapers for more than a decade, died on Thanksgiving at the age of 51 after emergency heart surgery. Jessica Fryman of the Las Vegas Review-Journal writes, “Simpson most recently wrote for Two Way Hard Three, a blog on Las Vegas casinos. He was a […]
Inside Tucson Business columnist dies
Hugh Holub, 65, who wrote an opinion column and was a regular blogger for Inside Tucson Business, died Monday after a bout with pneumonia. A story on Inside Tucson Business states, “He had been diagnosed with pneumonia about three weeks ago, which was brought under control with antibiotics but then he had a flare-up last week […]
