Former Toronto Star biz columnist dies
Jack McArthur, a former business editor and then long-time business columnist for the Toronto Star, died earlier this week. He was 79. In a story in The Star, former business editor Kenneth Kidd wrote, “His pronouncements were often pithy, tart and knowing. And despite his intimidating appearance, younger reporters would often seek his expert opinion, […]
Veteran LA Times labor reporter dies
Harry Bernstein, a labor reporter for the Los Angeles Times whose hiring at the paper in the 1960s marked a change in how the paper covered labor issues, has died. He was 83. An obituary in the Times on Thursday written by Jon Thurber noted, “Coming two years after Otis Chandler took the reins as […]
Wall Street Week’s Rukeyser has died
Wall Street Week host Louis Rukeyser has died, according to a story in the Baltimore Sun. He was 73. Rukeyser had not appeared on the show, which is now off the air, since 2003. Rukeyser’s journalism career began in the 1950s, and he spent more than a decade at the Baltimore Sun as a political […]
Former Daily News biz editor, Bloomberg editor dies
John Sims, who was a former business editor at the New York Daily News and an editor at Bloomberg News in London, has died. He was 65. An obituary in the Daily News on Monday noted, “During his career at UPI, he worked in Brussels, Beirut, Vienna and other capitals before coming towork for the […]
Former Newsday biz reporter dies
According to an internal memo, Dennis Duggan, a former Newsday business reporter and until recently a columnist for the paper, died this morning at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan. He was 78. In a memo to the staff, Newsday editor John Mancini wrote, “We here at Newsday have had the good fortune to know and […]
Former Oregonian and K.C. Star biz reporter dies
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 after 24 years at the Star. He held numerous business reporting and editing positions at the paper until his retirement in […]
Former Fortune Asian editor dies
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 last week at the age of 71, according to media reports. Among the first American journalists to recognise the rising influence […]
Son of BusinessWeek chief of correspondents dies tragically
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 York and was considered the heir apparent to Keith Felcyn, who was the chief of correspondents in the early 1990s. Jim’s […]
North Texas biz journalism program founder dies
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 finance columns in the Denton Record-Chronicle and The Dallas Morning News in the 1980s and 1990s and offered expert commentary on […]
New York Times' biz reporter dies of cancer
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 the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, we ran into each other frequently at events, and I always read what she wrote because she was […]
