Bregar, journalist at Crain’s Plastics News, dies at 58
Bill Bregar, who spent 31 years reporting on the plastics industry, died April 5 of an apparent heart attack at age 58. A story in Plastics News states, “Bregar was a plastics industry star,...
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Graves, founder of Black Enterprise magazine, dies at 85
Earl Graves Sr., the founder and publisher of Black Enterprise, has died at the age of 85 from Alzheimer’s, reports Brett Molina of USA Today. Molina reports, “Graves Sr. founded Black Enterprise in 1970 as...
AP deputy tech editor Jesdanun dies from coronavirus
Associated Press deputy tech editor Nick Jesdanun has died from the coronavirus, numerous sources reported Friday. He was 51. AP national writer Ted Anthony writes, “Jesdanun, known as Nick, was the first AP reporter...
Canada biz reporter Little dies at 74
Bruce Little, a reporter whose “Amazing Facts” column in The Globe and Mail tracked Canada’s political leaders, central bankers and their economic policies, died earlier this month at the age of 74 after a...
Maggs, editor at Bloomberg Businessweek, dies at 55
Barry Maggs, an editor who had worked at Bloomberg Businessweek magazine for the past 22 years, died Saturday at the age of 55 from cancer. Maggs joined Businessweek in 1998 when it was still...
Babad, longtime Canadian biz journalist, dies at 66
Michael Babad, a longtime Canadian business journalist who was at The Globe and Mail in Toronto, died Thursday at 66 from cancer. Andrew WIllis of The Globe and Mail writes, “For much of his career,...
Founder of American Indian Press Association passes away
Charles Trimble, an Oglala Lakota journalist, a former leader of the National Congress of American Indians and founder of the American Indian Press Association has died at the age of 84. Trimble passed away...
Former Columbus Dispatch biz editor dies at 87
Former Columbus Dispatch business editor Diana Britt Franklin died Monday after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. She was 87. Luke Feck and Chris Amatos write, “Franklin, born Peter D. Franklin in Bournemouth, England, in May 1932,...
Former Business New Haven publisher dies
Mitchell R. Young, former publisher of the regional business publication Business New Haven, died Feb. 16 following a long illness. A story on the publication’s website states, “The biweekly periodical was a publication of Second...
Quartz founding editor Delaney remembers Antunes
Quartz founding editor Kevin Delaney writes Tuesday about Xana Antunes, executive editor of the website who died Monday from cancer at the age of 55. Delaney writes, “Gwynn Guilford, a senior reporter at Quartz, says Xana...
