Donald Sorenson, a former business reporter and editor at the Kansas City Star and The Oregonian, died last month from complications related to Parkinson’s disease. He was 87. Sorenson joined the Oregonian in 1970...
Louis Kraar was most famous for his Fortune cover article in 1995 that predicted the demise of Hong Kong after it was given to the Chinese. He died of a heart attack in Manhattan...
I have known Jim Ellis, the chief of correspondents at BusinessWeek, for more than a decade. When I was at the magazine, he was in the Chicago bureau, but he soon came to New...
George Christy, a University of North Texas finance professor who helped create the university’s business journalism program, died in December, according to an article in the NT Daily student newspaper. Christy also wrote several...
I first met Connie Hays, who died earlier this week of cancer, back in 1996 or 1997 when she took over the beverage beat at the New York Times. Since I covered Coke for...
I was thinking this weekend about Benita Newton, a business reporter at the Virginian-Pilot who died unexpectedly this summer. Everyone who knew Benita was shocked. I first met Benita in 2004 when she had...
