Ankeny, former Crain’s Detroit reporter, dies at 86
Bob Ankeny, a reporter at Crain’s Detroit Business from 1995 to 2008, died Monday at the age of 86. Sherri Welch of Crain’s Detroit writes, “‘One of the best hires we ever made was Bob Ankeny. We were lucky enough to recruit him at a time when the (Detroit daily) newspapers were on strike,’ said Mary […]
Jenks, former editor of Atlanta Biz Chronicle, dies at 84
Alan Jenks, who was editor of the Atlanta Business Chronicle and later business editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, died Feb. 12 at the age of 84. An obituary in the Journal-Constitution states, “Born January 10, 1938, in Hawaii, Alan attended the Punahou School and later Choate before graduating from Swarthmore College as a History major […]
Martin, WSJ style guru, dies at 89
Paul Martin, who was the style and grammar guru at The Wall Street Journal for decades, died last week at the age of 89. He had been affiliated with The Wall Street Journal since 1960 and ran its style blog for it for 26 years before retiring in 2013. At the end of his last “Style & […]
Middleton, longtime biz journalist, dies at 77
Timothy Middleton, a longtime business journalist, died in New Jersey last week at the age of 77. An obituary said the cause was heart disease. Middleton was a columnist for MSN Money and a contributor to CNBC television. He also did weekend business reports for WCBS Radio in New York. He was the author of […]
Pyatt, Washington Post local biz columnist, dies at 88
Rudolph A. Pyatt Jr., a Washington Post local business columnist who retired in 2000 after 19 years writing a twice-weekly column, died earlier this month at 88. Washington Post reporter Bart Barnes writes, “Mr. Pyatt was among an early corps of Black journalists that cracked the segregation barriers of Southern newspapers when he began his career in […]
Deutsch, longtime NY Times biz reporter, dies
Claudia Deutsch, a former business reporter at the New York Times, has died at the age of 74 from cancer. Deutsch was a business reporter at the Times from 1984 until 2008. Preceding that, she had been the environmental editor and then management editor at Business Week. She earned the 1974 Jesse Neal Award for […]
Teachout, WSJ drama critic and columnist, dies at 65
Terry Teachout, the longtime drama critic and cultural columnist for The Wall Street Journal, died Thursday at the age of 65. An editorial board story states, “His prose was always lively and accessible, and in his judgments he was clear-eyed, uninterested in conventional wisdom, and committed to assessing each production on its merits. He believed […]
Howard, Reuters storytelling editor, dies at 59
Kari Howard, a storytelling editor at Reuters for the past four years, died Monday of cancer at the age of 59. Christopher Goffard of the Los Angeles Times writes, “Howard went on to edit Storyboard, the narrative website of the Nieman Foundation, and in early 2018 became the London-based storytelling editor at the Reuters news […]
Longtime biz journalist Tejada has died
Carlos Tejada, a business journalist for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, died this past weekend of a heart attack. He was 49. He most recently was deputy Asia editor for The Times, but had been its Asia business editor. Tejada spent two decades at The Wall Street Journal as a reporter […]
Cummins, former Newsday biz journalist, dies at 70
Harriet Jane Cummins, who worked at Newsday as a business reporter, editor and columnist, died last week at the age of 70. John Asbury of Newsday reports, “She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska and her Masters in English Literature from Creighton University in Omaha. “She worked for the Fort Myers News-Press […]
