Former CNBC VP of news dies at 84
Jack Reilly, the former vice president of news at CNBC, died Wednesday at the age of 84, reports Chris Ariens of TVNewser. Reilly was vice president and managing editor of the business news network from 1994 to 1998. He created “Squawk Box” and “Power Lunch” for CNBC. It was Reilly who came up with the […]
Former Reuters biz reporter dies
Jack Queeney, a former financial reporter for the Chicago Daily News and for Reuters in its Chicago bureau, died last week from cancer. He was 67. Bob Goldsborough writes in the Chicago Tribune, “After a little more than a year at City News Bureau, Mr. Queeney joined the Chicago Daily News in 1967 as a […]
First business editor of Utah newspaper dies at 84
Cliff Thompson, the first business editor of the Ogden Standard-Examiner in Utah, has died at the age of 84. Charles Trentleman writes, “Thompson, who retired in 1988, worked as a government and business reporter for much of his career at the Standard-Examiner. He was the paper’s first business editor. “Thompson was born in Kokomo, Texas, […]
WSJ reporter Wilke dies from cancer
John R. Wilke, a 20-year veteran of The Wall Street Journal known for incisive reporting on the intersection of business and politics, died of cancer Friday afternoon at his Bethesda, Md., home, according to a story on the paper’s Web site. He was 54. The story states, “After receiving a master’s degree from the Columbia […]
Remembering Annette Haddad
The career of Los Angeles Times real estate reporter Annette Haddad was remembered Thursday in a story in the paper. Haddad died Wednesday at 46 from cancer. Jon Thurber writes, “Versatile and engaged, Haddad performed many editing functions in Business over the next nine years, including assignment editor for the airline, tourism, retailing and agriculture […]
LA Times real estate reporter Haddad dies from cancer
Los Angeles Times real estate reporter Annette Haddad died earlier Wednesday from cancer, according to a memo from editor Russ Stanton posted on LAObserved. Here’s part of the memo: Annette was given a dire prognosis a little more than a year ago, but after aggressive treatment that included major surgery, she applied her well-known force […]
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 […]
