Stephen Miller, the obituary writer for The Wall Street Journal, is leaving the paper.
He will join Bloomberg News on April 28 to write obituaries.
“It was great working at the Journal,” said Miller in an email to Talking Biz News. “I’m looking forward to working with the obits team at Bloomberg News. Coming up on two decades in obits, I still find the form a fascinating challenge so it was great to find a new place to practice.”
In an email to the staff, Miller wrote:
“GoodBye! The Journal of Contemporary Obituaries” was a ‘zine and website I founded in 1996. It morphed into Remembrances, which in 2006 became the WSJ’s first regular obituary feature. Something like 1000 corpses later, it is time for another transition. I thank all the fine editors and writers I’ve worked with here.
Miller had been with the paper since 2007. Before that, he was the obituaries editor of the New York Sun for five years.
Miller has a degree from Oberlin College and also worked at Mizuho Capital Markets for six years.
