Wollenberg, longtime AP biz journalist, dies at 76
Skip Wollenberg, a longtime business journalist for the Associated Press, died last month at the age of 76. He graduated from Purdue University and before retiring in 2017, he worked for the Associated Press for 45 years, in Springfield, Illinois; Memphis, Tennessee; Washington, DC, and New York. “Skip was always the first to arrive in […]
Coady, former WWD editor, dies
Michael Coady, former editor in chief of both WWD and W magazine, and chief executive officer of Fairchild Publications, died on Aug. 24 at the age of 86. Rosemary Feitelberg of WWD writes, “Allen Questrom, the former CEO of JCPenney, Federated Department Stores, Barneys New York and Neiman Marcus, said of Coady, ‘He was very aggressive […]
Colford, former media reporter, dies at 71
Paul Colford, who covered the media industry for nearly three decades for Newsday and the New York Daily News, has died at the age of 71. He died Tuesday after heart complications impacted by his 15-year battle with Parkinson’s disease. Colford covered the media industry for Newsday from September 1980 to August 2000. He then covered […]
American Banker ME de Wet dies at 55
Mary de Wet, the managing editor at American Banker, died Monday at the age of 55 from cancer. She had been with American Banker since August 2024. She previously was Americas chief editor for Dow Jones Newswires. De Wet spent more than 24 years at Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal, including a time as assistant managing editor of […]
Chappell, longtime auto reporter, dies at 67
Lindsay Chappell, a longtime reporter for Automotive News, has died at 67 from cancer. Richard Truett of Automotive News reports, “His nearly 36 years at Automotive News included some of the most tumultuous events in the history of the industry, not just the arrival of foreign automakers and their plants in the American South, but the […]
Pennsylvania biz journalist DaParma dies at 78
Ronald L. “Ron” DaParma, a longtime business editor and business writer for newspapers in McKeesport, Greensburg and Pittsburgh, died June 20 at the age of 78. Joe Napsha of TribLive writes that DaParma “had the ability to cover a broad spectrum of topics, whether it was real estate, Pittsburgh’s banking behemoths, small business, or steel mill […]
Thomson, Post-Dispatch biz editor, dies at 86
Susan C. Thomson, an editor, business columnist and reporter over nearly three decades at the Post Dispatch, died on June 8 at 86. An obituary states, “Thomson joined the Post-Dispatch in 1976 and spent seven years, from 1982 to 1989, as business editor, followed by a two-year stint as a columnist on business issues. She […]
Zielenziger, first Bloomberg tech reporter, dies at 72
David Zielenziger, the first tech reporter for what was then called Bloomberg Business News, died Tuesday at the age of 72. An obituary states, “Zielenziger, a proud 1974 graduate of Princeton University, where he was chairman of the campus newspaper, The Daily Princetonian, joined The Baltimore Sun after college. “Between 1978 and 1982, he was […]
Twin Cities Business founding publisher Cohen dies at 94
Burt Cohen, the founding publisher of Mpls.St.Paul and Twin Cities Business, died Saturday at the age of 94. Allison Kaplan of Twin Cities Business writes, “By the late 1980s, Cohen, Johnson, and Anderson started discussing the need for a different sort of business magazine—one that, as Cohen described on By All Means, ‘looked at the pros and cons of everything […]
Vines, former Bloomberg restaurant critic, dies at 71
Richard Vines, formerly the long-time chief food critic for Bloomberg, has died aged 71. David Ellis of The Standard writes, “Looking for a new start, after studying at the London School of Economics — where as well as achieving an honours degree in economics and sociology, he wrote dance reviews — in 1977 Vines headed to Cardiff University for a […]
