Barney DuBois, a journalist who helped start the Memphis Business Journal in 1979, died Saturday at the age of 68.
Jane Donahoe of the Business Journal writes, “DuBois was a fixture in the Memphis media scene since the 1960s, when he worked as a reporter for both The Commercial Appeal and the Memphis Press-Scimitar.
“But it was with the MBJ that DuBois spent the majority of his career. He co-founded the paper, the Mid-South’s first business weekly, with Ward Archer Sr. in 1979. The pair launched affiliate publication Nashville Business Journal in 1985.
“DuBois worked as news editor and editor of MBJ as well as publisher and CEO of the papers’ parent company until 1997, when he sold the publications to American City Business Journals Inc., a division of Advance Publishing which is owned by the Newhouse family.
“Friends and former colleagues will remember DuBois, who commonly referred to himself as an ‘old hippie,’ for his humor, intelligence and journalistic prowess.”
