First Courier-Journal biz editor dies
Rodney Wenz, the first business editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal back in 1969 and later a PR professional in the city, died Wednesday, according to a story in the paper. “Wenz was The Courier-Journal’s first business editor, appointed in 1969 after coming to the newspaper in 1967 as a business reporter. Former Courier-Journal publisher George […]
Milwaukee Business Journal reporter dies from heart attack
David Doege, a reporter for the Milwaukee Business Journal, died this weekend after suffering a heart attack, according to a story on the paper’s site. He was 53. The story states, “The 53-year-old Doege joined The Business Journal in January after spending 26 years with the Milwaukee Sentinel and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel as a […]
Indiana business journalist dies
Paul Dodson, who worked 18 years as a business reporter and columnist for the South Bend Tribune in Indiana before retiring in 2002, has died. He was 68. A story in the paper stated, “Dodson’s reporting chronicled the shift in the region away from manufacturing and toward a service-oriented economy. He covered some of the […]
Former Tulsa World biz editor dies
Walt Radmilovich, a former business editor of the Tulsa World and a member of the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame, has died at the age of 78, according to an Associated Press story. The story states, “He was born Sept. 28, 1930, in San Pedro, Calif., to Henrietta and Walter Radmilovich Sr. He received a […]
Deane, backbone of Economist's economics coverage for four decades
The Economist eulogizes Marjorie Deane, who was the backbone of the magazine’s economics coverage from 1947 to 1989. She died last week at the age of 94. The Economist writes, “In the course of her long career she made two fundamental contributions to the paper. The first was to restore an emphasis on accuracy that […]
Osborn Elliott, who started at Newsweek as biz editor, dies at 83
Osborn Elliott, the former editor of Newsweek and dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism whose career started as a business journalist, has died at the age of 83. Laurence Arnold of Bloomberg News writes, “After beginning his journalism career at the Journal of Commerce and at Time magazine, Elliott joined Newsweek in 1955 […]
Bankrate.com AME dies after surgery
Doug Delp, 63, assistant managing editor of Bankrate.com, the online operation that bills itself as ”the Web’s leading aggregator of financial rate information,” died earlier this week from complications following surgery. “Doug worked with us for the past nine years. He had a fabulous news sense as well as a great sense of humor, and mentored […]
Death and The Wall Street Journal
Matthew Flamm of Crain’s New York Business writes about how The Wall Street Journal is attempting to boost online readers — and revenue — by adding an obituary section to its Web site. Flamm writes, “In a deal announced Monday, Web startup Tributes.com has become the new classified obituaries section of WSJ.com. Users will also […]
Bloomberg says it will stand by journalist in obit snafu
Kaja Whitehouse of the New York Post writes Friday about the prepared obituary of Apple CEO Steve Jobs that was briefly published by Bloomberg News, quoting a company spokeswoman as defending the editor who let it happen. Whitehouse writes, “Still, the timing couldn’t have been worse as the draft obit, which a reader sent to […]
Apple CEO Steve Jobs is not dead yet
Ryan Tate of Gawker reports that Bloomberg News mistakenly published its prepared obituary of Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Wednesday. Tate writes, “But news organizations routinely prepare obituaries in advance, even for the healthy. And if Bloomberg readers had seen the internal story slug, ‘testjobs,’ their jitters might have abated. The obit, which we’ve obtained […]
