In Memoriam

Posted By admin

In Memory of Our Colleagues in Business Journalism

David J. Morrow, former editor-in-chief of TheStreet.Com, 1960-2010

David J. Morrow, who led TheStreet.com as editor in chief for eight years and delivered some of the company's biggest successes, died Monday night after a monthlong battle with cancer. He was 49. Morrow -- "Dave" to anyone who knew him -- led TheStreet's editorial teams from 2001 to 2009 before becoming the first Reynolds Endowed Chair in Business Journalism at the Reynolds School of Journalism at ...[Click Here]

David Sutton, 1940-2009: Longtime editor, mentor at Chicago Tribune

By Trevor Jensen | Tribune reporter, July 22, 2009 David Sutton held a number of editing and production jobs during 33 years with the Chicago Tribune, where he was known as a meticulous editor and an amiable mentor to younger colleagues. Mr. Sutton, 68, died of multiple myeloma Sunday, July 19, in Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. He had lived in La Grange. Joining the newspaper in ...[Click Here]

Crystal Reid Austin, 29, was honored journalist

"Joy and sorrow are inseparable," wrote Lebanese-American author Kahlil Gibran. It must seem that way for the family of Crystal Renee Reid Austin. The 29-year-old business reporter for the Bismarck (N.D.) Tribune died Friday, six days after her wedding to Rod Austin of Bismarck. Continue reading at Omaha World-Herald....[Click Here]

ACBJ Chairman Ray Shaw dies at age 75

Ray Shaw, the chairman of American City Business Journals, the parent company of Triangle Business Journal, died Sunday morning due to complications from a bee sting. He was 75 years old. Continue reading at Triangle Business Journal...[Click Here]

Annette Haddad dies at 46; real estate reporter for The Times' Business section

This article and photo were reproduced here with permission from The Los Angeles Times: Obituaries website. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-annette-haddad23-2009apr23,0,531295.story By Jon Thurber, April 23, 2009, Annette Haddad, a Business section reporter for the Los Angeles Times who covered the volatile Southern California residential real estate market, has died. ...[Click Here]

Journal's Wilke Dies of Cancer at 54

WASHINGTON -- John R. Wilke, a 20-year veteran of The Wall Street Journal known for incisive reporting on the intersection of business and politics, died of cancer Friday afternoon at his Bethesda, Md., home. Continue reading at The Wall Street Journal....[Click Here]

Griffin, financial editor at Chicago Daily News, dies at 76

Richard "Dick" Griffin, the financial editor at the Chicago Daily News for 13 years, died last week at the age of 76, according to a Chicago Tribune story. Trevor Jensen writes: "Mr. Griffin ran the Daily News"™ financial pages from 1963 to 1976. With former Daily News reporter Rob Warden, he edited a collection of the newspaper's dispatches titled "˜Done in a Day: 100 Years of Great Writing ...[Click Here]

2006 Best in Business, Enterprise Real-time Award Winner Douglas W. Delp Dies Aged 63

Douglas W. Delp, 63, a long-time print and Internet reporter, columnist and editor, passed away unexpectedly Sept. 23 at Jupiter Medical Center in Jupiter, Fla., following emergency surgery. He leaves behind his best friend and beloved "bride," Elaine, in addition to scores of close friends and admiring coworkers at Bankrate.com, where he was an assistant managing editor, as well as prior coworkers ...[Click Here]

Currier, 1999 SABEW Distinguished Award winner, dies at age 62

Reprinted with permission by Associated Press By Joyce M. Rosenburg, AP Business Writer Chet Currier , whose stock market and investing stories were fixtures in newspapers across the U.S. during a 29-year career at The Associated Press, died Sunday. He was 62. Currier, who also worked for Bloomberg News, died of prostate cancer at a hospice in Santa Monica, Calif., his son Craig said ...[Click Here]

Washington Business Journal editor dies at 38

John McCalla, editor of Washington Business Journal, has died. He was 38. A cause of death was not immediately available. McCalla was named editor in September, succeeding longtime editor Beth Hunt. McCalla had served as managing editor of the paper since November 2001. Publisher Alex Orfinger announced the news to the paper's 45-person staff in a somber meeting Monday morning. Details ...[Click Here]

Longtime BDN editor dies

A longtime editor at the Bangor Daily News died suddenly Friday, four days after working Christmas Day for the company that employed him for 22 years. Carroll Dana Astbury of Hampden was 58 years old. Astbury grew up in the Blue Hill area and later lived in Orrington. He worked for the paper in numerous capacities during his career, including in the promotions department and as business writer, ...[Click Here]

Rod Smith, editor of R-J Gaming Wire, dies at 60

By HOWARD STUTZ GAMING WIRE Rod Smith, the Review-Journal's Gaming Wire editor whose varied 30-year career took him into the fields of economics, politics and business journalism, died Thursday after a two-year battle with cancer. Smith, 60, had been the newspaper's award-winning lead reporter on the gaming industry since August 2002 and wrote a weekly column in the Business section's Sunday ...[Click Here]

Business Journal reporter Andrew Hamm dies

Andrew Hamm, a veteran reporter with the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, died suddenly Monday at his home in Tracy. The San Joaquin County coroner's office said Hamm appeared to have suffered a heart attack. A cause of death is pending further tests. He was 46. Hamm had been at the Business Journal since 2000 and covered energy, transportation, hospitality and sports management. ...[Click Here]

Sentinel business columnist passes away after heart attack

Orlando Sentinel business columnist Susan Strother Clarke died this afternoon, one day after suffering a massive heart attack at her College Park home. She was 47. Clarke started working at the Sentinel in 1985, coming from the Gwinnet Daily News in Georgia. She held a variety of editing and reporting positions for the newspaper, and she became the Sentinel's business columnist in February 2003. In ...[Click Here]

Rocky business reporter dies

John Accola, a business investigative reporter at the Rocky Mountain News, died June 25 of an apparent heart attack. He was 56. Accola was a winner, with colleague Peggy Lowe, of a 2000 Best in Business award in the Spot Enterprise - Giant Newspapers category. He authored or co-authored a number of other stories and series nominated for SABEW awards. Deb Goeken, managing editor of the News, ...[Click Here]

Financial Advice TV Show Pioneer Dies

Louis Rukeyser, who for 32 years presided over PBS' Wall Street Week, a landmark financial advice show developed in Owings Mills and distinguished by his keen insights, wry puns and idiosyncratic musings on the market, died yesterday at his home in Greenwich, Conn. Mr. Rukeyser, who was 73, died of multiple myeloma, a rare cancer of the bone marrow, said his brother, Bud Rukeyser. An imposing ...[Click Here]

Virginian-Pilot business reporter Benita Newton dies

Benita D. Newton, a business reporter for The Virginian-Pilot, died July 26 after collapsing at work. She was 25. The cause of death has not been determined. It was the second death in three weeks among The Virginian-Pilot's business news staff, which had six reporters. Michael Davis, an award-winning writer, died July 5 of cancer. He was 39. The Pilot's business editor, Bill Choyke, said ...[Click Here]

Business reporter Michael Davis dies of cancer

By JIM WASHINGTON, The Virginian-Pilot © July 7, 2005 Michael Davis, an award-winning business reporter at The Virginian-Pilot, died Tuesday night. He was 39. Davis felt ill while visiting his parents in Atlanta two weeks ago. Within days doctors told him he had abdominal cancer so advanced that there was nothing they could do. He died with his family around him. "All we wanted ...[Click Here]
Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

Comments are closed.

About

Society of American Business Editors and Writers

Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication,
Arizona State University
Suite 416, 555 North Central Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85004-1248
Phone: (602)-496-7862 Fax: (602) 496-7041

Missouri School of Journalism
30 Neff Annex, Columbia, MO 65211-1200
Phone: (573)-882-2878 Fax: (573) 884-1372

E-mail: sabew@sabew.org

©2001 - 2009 Society of American Business Editors and Writers, Inc.