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 […]
Arizona Daily Star drops Monday biz section
The Arizona Daily Star has dropped its standalone Monday business section, according to a short story in today’s paper. The story stated, “Starting Dec. 24, look for Monday’s business news every week on the back page of the Accent section. The freestanding Business section will continue to be published the remaining days of the week. […]
Former Columbus Dispatch business reporter dies at 56
Phil Porter, a former Columbus Dispatch business reporter during the past two decades, has died from cancer at the age of 56, according to a short story in Monday’s paper. The story stated, “A native of Euclid, near Cleveland, Porter’s work for the newspaper began in 1991, when he joined the business news staff as […]
Dow Jones senior economics writer McAuley dies
John McAuley, the senior economics writer at Dow Jones Newswires, died Wednesday at the age of 60 from cardiac arrest shortly after making an appearance on the Fox Business Network to discuss a recent column. Eduardo Kaplan of Dow Jones Newswires wrote, “That Big Picture column, one of the hundreds John wrote since he joined […]
Iowa business editor dies
Mike Augspurger, the business editor of the Burlington Hawk Eye in Iowa, has died at the age of 52, according to an Associated Press story. He died on Monday. The Hawk Eye is the oldest daily newspaper in the state. The AP story stated, “Augspurger joined The Hawk Eye in 1994. After a brief retirement […]
