Holusha, longtime NYT biz reporter, dies at 67

John Holusha, who covered business topics at the New York Times for nearly three decades, died Thursday from a heart attack. He was 67.

Margalit Fox of the Times writes, “Mr. Holusha joined The Times in 1979 as an editor on the business desk and was soon assigned to cover the automobile industry; from 1981 to 1988 he was a correspondent in the newspaper’s Detroit bureau, covering, among other subjects, Lee A. Iacocca, the Chrysler Corporation’s charismatic chairman; the United Automobile Workers; and the increasing consumer demand for smaller cars.

“In a lighter vein, he wrote about the curious local custom of throwing octopuses onto the ice at Detroit Red Wings hockey games.

“Returning to New York, Mr. Holusha was a reporter on the business, real estate and continuous news desks before retiring in 2008.”

Read more here. And here’s another remembrance of his work.