Homans, editor of Vanity Fair’s The Hive, has died

John Homans

John Homans, editor of Vanity Fair’s widely read media, business and technology sub-section The Hive, died Wednesday at the age of 62.

“There just aren’t many people like Homans in our business,” wrote Michael Calderone, a senior editor at The Hive, on Twitter.

Homans was the executive editor of New York magazine from 1994 to 2014, and previously worked at Esquire, Details, Harper’s, and the New York Observer. He is the author of the book “What Is A Dog For?” He joined The Hive in April 2017. Homans was previously at Bloomberg Politics, which he helped launch with John Heilemann and Mark Halperin.

Claire Landsbaum, an editor at The Hive, wrote on Twitter: “Homans was my boss, mentor, friend. He once told me I was a ‘young person going places,’ the most Homans-y compliment of all. Almost everything I know about editing I learned from him. And I wish there had been time for more.”

New York magazine has a tribute from former co-workers posted here.

The Hive covers Washington, Wall Street and Silicon Valley.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.