Four business reporters at the Chicago Tribune were among the 53 laid off in the newsroom on Wednesday, a source tells Talking Biz News.
The four are technology reporter Eric Benderoff, real estate reporter Susan Diesenhouse, futures, derivatives and agriculture reporter Joshua Boak and spot news and manufacturing reporter Jim Miller.
Diesenhouse was part of a team that won a Society of Business Editors and Writers Best in Business Award in 2006 for covering the Chicago Board of Trade merger with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
Boak came to the Tribune from the Toledo Blade. He graduated from Princeton University and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where he received the Philip Greer Award for Financial Writing. For his work about Ohio’s rare coin investments while at the Blade, Boak shared recognition as a National Headliners award print grand prize and investigative reporting winner and as finalists for the 2006 Pulitzer for public service and The Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.
Miller is the head scratcher because the mantra at the Tribune is “digital first,” and he seemed squarely in the sweet spot, writing breaking news for its Web site. He operated much like an old-line rewrite man.
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Josh Boak is a major loss. He understood how markets and modern finance work; never messed up a quote I gave him; always saw the bigger picture; and, asked great questions. I regularly stopped what I was doing to read a new column of his.
And what now? The WSJ under Murdoch is a joke; I've stopped recommending it to my students. The FT and NYT are insightful when they cover an issue. Unfortunately, the FT's US coverage is incomplete, and the NYT often trails the Journal.