Clark, financial editor for Chicago Tribune for 13 years, dies at 90
William N. Clark, the financial editor of the Chicago Tribune from 1956 to 1969, died Saturday. He was 90. Trevor Jensen of the Tribune writes, “Joining the Chicago Tribune in 1941 as a business reporter, Mr. Clark was the newspaper’s financial editor from 1956 until 1969. During that time, he hosted two televised business programs, […]
Forbes remembers Irving R. Levine
Steve Forbes, the editor in chief of Forbes, remembers legendary NBC News economics correspondent Irving R. Levine, who died last month at 86. Forbes writes, “Following stints overseas, Levine was given this once dead-end beat in the early 1970s. But the economy soon left the back pages to become a front-page topic, and with its importance […]
Remembering an old-fashioned business reporter
Marketwatch media columnist Jon Friedman writes Friday about former colleague Julie Rannazzisi, who died five years ago today and covered the stock market as New York bureau chief. Friedman writes that Rannazzisi would have abhorred today’s state of business journalism, where scoops have less importance because new media forms have overtaken daily newspapers. He writes, […]
Irving R. Levine's career: A retrospective
 TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Irving R. Levine died Thursday. What follows is an analysis of his career and why he’s such an important figure in business journalism’s evolution during the 1970s and 1980s. Levine’s first job in journalism was for the Providence, R. I., newspaper, but by 1950 he was in Vienna reporting European stories for […]
Irving R. Levine, who helped make biz news popular on TV, dies at 86
Irving R. Levine, the professorial NBC newsman who helped make business and economics stories a staple of network news shows in the 1970s and 1980s, has died, according to an Associated Press. He was 86. The AP story stated, “Levine died Thursday, announced Kevin M. Ross, president of Lynn University in Boca Raton. Levine taught […]
Former Richmond biz writer dies
John Lyle, a former business reporter in Richmond, died Saturday, according to an obituary from Ellen Robertson of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Robertson writes, “In 1986, ‘John was part of the original team that launched [the tabloid section called] Metro Business’ at the News Leader, said Times-Dispatch Publisher Thomas A. Silvestri, who at the time was […]
Nicholas Schuman, former Chicago business writer, dies
Nicholas R. Schuman, a financial writer and editor for the old Chicago Daily News, died Tuesday. He was 87. Trevor Jensen of the Chicago Tribune writes, “Mr. Shuman’s parents were illiterate peasants who came to Chicago from rural Belarus and settled in Humboldt Park. He was fluent in Russian.While at Lane Tech High School, he […]
NYPost real estate columnist Kiel dies
Braden Kiel, the real estate columnist for the New York Post, died Tuesday from melanoma. He was 53. Rita Delfiner of the Post writes, “Keil, an engaging, gregarious Manhattanite whose ‘Gimme Shelter’ column was a must-read and whose greatest pleasure was spending time with wife Jennifer Gould Keil and his three children, died Tuesday night […]
Bob Cole, former NYT biz reporter, dies at 83
Robert Cole, a former New York Times business journalist known for his coverage of corporate mergers and acquisitions in the 1970s and 1980s, died last month, according to a Times obituary. He last wrote for the Times in July 1991, when he covered the stock market. The story states, “Mr. Cole was known for chasing […]
Griffin, financial editor at Chicago Daily News, dies at 76
Richard “Dick” Griffin, the financial editor at the Chicago Daily News for 13 years, died last week at the age of 76, according to a Chicago Tribune story. Trevor Jensen writes, “Mr. Griffin ran the Daily News’ financial pages from 1963 to 1976. With former Daily News reporter Rob Warden, he edited a collection of […]
