Former WSJ reporter Bacon, 64, dies of cancer
Kenneth Bacon, a former reporter and editor at The Wall Street Journal who later became a Pentagon spokesman, died Saturday from cancer. He was 64. Stephen Miller of the Journal writes, “The son of an Amherst College dean and professor of political science, he earned graduate degrees in business and journalism simultaneously from Columbia University. […]
More Shaw remembrances
The Portfolio.com staff has posted a number of comments from American City Business Journals staff members about former chairman Ray Shaw, who died Sunday from a bee sting. Here are some examples: Despite his many business achievements, I always thought of Ray as a journalist first. A note from him congratulating our team on some […]
ACBJ reflects on Ray Shaw
Erik Spanberg of the Charlotte Business Journal profiles American City Business Journals chairman Ray Shaw, who died Sunday. Spanberg writes, “Last month, Shaw was ushered into the main conference room of ACBJ headquarters and greeted with applause from more than 350 employees. They were there for a surprise celebration of the chairman’s 20th anniversary leading […]
Friends, family, co-workers remember Ray Shaw
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE American City Business Journals chairman Ray Shaw was remembered Wednesday by friends, co-workers and family as someone who worked hard, but always kept his family first. “Even when my dad was on vacation, he might have been away from the office, but he was never really away,” said Whitney Shaw, his […]
North Dakota business journalist dies
Crystal Reid Austin, a business reporter for the Bismarck Tribune in North Dakota, died Friday at the age of 29 from undetermined causes, six days after her wedding. Sue Story Truax of the Omaha World-Herald writes, “Reid Austin was a 2006 graduate of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where she was editor of the […]
How Ray Shaw made an impression on one ACBJ reporter
Jennifer Nycz-Conner, a reporter at the Washington Business Journal, remembers one of the first times she met her boss, American City Business Journals chairman Ray Shaw, who died suddenly on Sunday. Nycz-Conner writes, “Our editor and friend John McCalla passed away very suddenly in 2007, and Ray and our former editor Beth Hunt found a […]
More remembrances of Ray Shaw
Two more editors of American City Business Journals papers have sent in their thoughts about Ray Shaw, the company’s chairman who died Sunday from complications related to a bee sting. Cindy Barth, the editor of the Orlando Business Journal: “When I first joined ACBJ as an intern, I had little knowledge about the company or […]
Editor: Shaw is the reason I stayed in business journalism
Sougata Mukherjee, the editor of the Triangle Business Journal, says that American City Business Journals chairman Ray Shaw is the reason why he has been in business journalism for 20 years. Shaw died Sunday morning. He had run American City for 20 years. Mukherjee says, “It was never what he said; for me it always […]
Former Dow Jones CEO remembers friend Shaw
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE I asked Warren Phillips, the chief executive officer of Dow Jones & Co. from 1975 to 1990, for some thoughts about his former colleague, Ray Shaw, who died suddenly Sunday. Shaw was president and chief operating officer under Phillips, but he retired in 1989 and then built American City Business Journals […]
Remembering Ray Shaw
Ray Shaw, the chairman of American City Business Journals who died suddenly Sunday at the age of 75, reminded me of one of my grandfathers. He had a gruff exterior, but inside he was all heart. And he was the guiding person behind the success of one of the largest employers of business journalists in […]
