Remembering a fallen biz reporter
Frank Miele, managing editor of the Daily Inter Lake in Kalispel, Mont., writes Sunday about Erika Hoefer, the newspaper’s business reporter who died last week in a plane crash at the age of 27 along with another one of the paper’s reporters. Miele writes, “Erika arrived about two weeks later, and we promptly informed Melissa […]
Montana biz reporter dies in plane crash
Erika Hoefer, 27, and a business reporter for the newspaper in Kalispell, Mont., died in a plane crash that was sight-seeing in the state. Another reporter for the newspaper, and two others, also died in the plane crash. The wreckage was found Wednesday afternoon. Michael Jamison of the Missoulian writes, “Hoefer came from rural Wisconsin […]
Remembering Chris Welles
Marketwatch.com media columnist Jon Friedman writes Wednesday about Chris Welles, the well-known business journalist who died last week at 72. Friedman writes, “If Chris had had a chance to read this column — or any of the other stories that have appeared since his passing — I suspect that he would have reacted in two […]
Welles took on the oil industry
The New York Times has an obituary Wednesday of noted business journalist Chris Welles and recounts how he took on the oil industry in the 1970s. Dennis Hevesi writes, “His 1970 book, ‘The Elusive Bonanza,’ accused the oil industry of neglecting the development of America’s vast oil-shale reserves. It was an expansion of an article […]
Ex-BusinessWeek editor Shepard fondly remembers Welles
Talking Biz News asked Steve Shepard, the editor of BusinessWeek from 1985 to 2005, for some thoughts about business journalist Chris Welles, who worked at BusinessWeek for 13 years and died this weekend. Here is what Shepard, now the dean at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, had to say: “Chris Welles was a genuinely […]
Welles, top business journalist, dies
Chris Welles, who ran the business journalism program at Columbia University and was also a top business journalist for publications such as BusinessWeek, died Saturday after an extended illness. Floyd Norris of the New York Times writes, “Chris ran the Bagehot program (now the Knight-Bagehot program) at Columbia University for many years. That program offers […]
King, Montreal Gazette biz reporter, dies at 51
Mike King, a business reporter at the Montreal Gazette, died Sunday at the age of 51 after suffering a brain aneurysm on Friday. Monique Muise of the Gazette writes, “He was known as a jack-of-all-trades; a flexible and prolific newsman who could pick up an idea and produce a clean, well-researched story every single day […]
Founder of Boston, Providence business journals dies
Robert C. Bergenheim, the former Boston Herald American publisher who co-founded the Boston Business Journal and Providence Business News, died on Saturday at the age of 86. William Hamilton and Ted Nesi of the Business News write that after being publisher of the Herald American, “Bergenheim then became vice president of legal affairs, human relations […]
Former Houston Chronicle biz editor dies
Tommy Thompson, a former oil reporter and business editor for the Houston Chronicle, died Saturday at the age of 90. Amanda Casanova of the Chronicle writes, “After covering sports for the now-closed Houston Press, Thompson joined the Chronicle as an oil reporter in 1966. He became the business editor one year later. “‘Tommy was a […]
Woody, retired Salt Lake biz editor
Robert Woody, the business editor of the Salt Lake Tribune from 1965 to 1990, died Wednesday at the age of 84, according to a story from the paper. Paul Rolly writes, “‘Bob was famous in the newsroom for calling out, ‘Take a number,’ whenever someone shouted that he was wanted on the phone,’ said Mike […]