Former West Virginia biz editor dies

Edward Peeks, the former business editor at the Charleston Gazette in West Virginia, died Sunday at the age of 90.

A story on the paper’s site states, “Peeks was a reporter and editor for the Gazette from July 1963 to October 1985. When he retired, he was the newspaper’s business/labor editor.

“In 1992, Peeks joined with another former Gazette reporter, K.W. Lee, to promote brotherhood between blacks and Koreans after riots in Los Angeles earlier that year pitted the two groups against each other.

“Peeks wrote a column for the Los Angeles-based Korea Times, edited by Lee. ‘It’s better for minority groups to work together than to let fear and hate send them to hell together in Los Angeles and other places in the firestorms the next time around,’ he wrote.”

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