Former NY Post, LA Herald Examiner biz editor dies at 80
Jack Searles, the former business editor of the New York Post and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, has died at the age of 80, according to a post on an LA Times blog. His son, Michael Searles, writes, “When the Mirror folded, Jack went to work for the L.A. Times as a general assignment reporter. […]
Thriving on grit and passion
Jim Kelly of the Pacific Business News writes Friday about the paper’s founder and former editor, George Mason, who died earlier this week at 84. Kelly wrote, “In 1971, PBN sued the state of Hawaii to collect 94 cents interest on a bill for an advertisement that the state was nearly five months late in […]
Former BusinessWeek Washington bureau chief dies at 61
Lee Walczak, who worked at BusinessWeek for three decades and was its Washington bureau chief for 20 years, died Friday due to pancreatic cancer. He was 61, according to a story in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The story stated, “At Business Week, his career spanned 37 years, starting as an editorial trainee in the Washington […]
Founder of Honolulu biz newspaper dies at 84
George Mason, who helped found the Pacific Business News newspaper in Honolulu back in 1963 and served as its editor for 16 years, died Monday at his home. He was 84. The weekly newspaper was sold to American City Business Journals in 1984. A story on the paper’s web site stated, “Playing a hunch that […]
Former Roanoke Times biz reporter dies from stroke
Charles Stebbins, a former business reporter for the Roanoke Times, died Sunday from a stroke, according to a story in Monday’s newspaper. Mike Allen wrote, “While Frances Stebbins wrote about churches and religion, her husband ran the bureau covering Roanoke County and Salem for 10 years, sending in stories using a teletype machine from an […]
Former Honolulu real estate reporter dies
Jerry Tune, who covered Hawaii real estate for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin for decades, died Friday after an illness. He was 69. Star-Bulletin reporter Rosemarie Bernardo wrote, “Tune started working at the Star-Bulletin in 1970. He covered the environment beat before moving to the business section. Former colleagues described him as a hard-working reporter who covered […]
Pittsburgh biz reporter dies after surgery
C.M. Mortimer, a business reporter for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review who covered the steel and coal industries, died Sunday following surgery. He was 54. Tribune-Review staff writer Mary Pickels wrote, “Mortimer’s work covering the coal, steel and the mushroom industries, Oravecz said, led his colleagues on the business desk to jokingly refer to him as the […]
Remembering a great editor
Andrew Cohen, writing in the Ottawa Citizen, writes Tuesday about former Financial Post executive editor Dalton Robertson and how he made the business newspaper in Canada a great publication. Robertson died last month at the age of 80. Cohen wrote, “‘Write me a little jewel,’ he would whisper softly. It was his usual appeal to […]
Former Sun-Times business editor dies
Mary Myers, who became a business editor at the Chicago Sun-Times in the 1970s when female editors at major newspapers were uncommon, has died. She was 71, according to an Associated Press story. The AP story stated, “The Sun-Times hired Myers in 1973, and from 1978 until 1984 she was deputy financial editor. “‘She was […]
Philly Inquirer editor dies of heart failure
Thomas Brady, a Philadelphia Inquirer copy editor who had written the “Newsmakers” gossip column and he recently edited a news column about business people in the news that often included short profiles of leaders, died Sunday of heart failure. He was 57. Inquirer staff writer Jane M. Von Berger wrote, “The graceful profiles offered interesting […]
