https://talkingbiznews.com/tag/obituaries/ A business journalism site for pens in pursuit of the bottom line Thu, 29 Aug 2024 00:00:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://talkingbiznews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/tbn_logo.svg https://talkingbiznews.com/tag/obituaries/ 32 32 https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/evans-reuters-staffer-killed-was-indispensable-to-coverage/ https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/evans-reuters-staffer-killed-was-indispensable-to-coverage/#respond Thu, 29 Aug 2024 00:00:08 +0000 https://talkingbiznews.com/?p=172745 Ryan Evans, who was killed in a missile strike on a hotel in eastern Ukraine, had combat experience and a professional manner that made him indispensable to Reuters’ coverage of wars and an unfailing source of support for many journalists, reports Elizabeth Piper of Reuters. Piper reports, “He befriended many of the reporters he was helping stay safe, […]]]> https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/evans-reuters-staffer-killed-was-indispensable-to-coverage/feed/ 0 https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/neff-longtime-businessweek-staffer-dies-at-77/ https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/neff-longtime-businessweek-staffer-dies-at-77/#respond Mon, 26 Aug 2024 23:37:35 +0000 https://talkingbiznews.com/?p=172692 Robert C. Neff, a former Businessweek staffer who covered the rise of the Japanese economy, died July 31 at the age of 77. Bill Holstein writes for The Japan Times, “Neff was part of a golden age of magazine journalism. He circled the globe with postings in Honolulu, Los Angeles, Tokyo, London and New York. American […]]]> https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/neff-longtime-businessweek-staffer-dies-at-77/feed/ 0 https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/reuters-staffer-evans-killed-in-ukraine-attack/ https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/reuters-staffer-evans-killed-in-ukraine-attack/#respond Mon, 26 Aug 2024 00:36:22 +0000 https://talkingbiznews.com/?p=172666 Ryan Evans, a member of the Reuters team covering the war in Ukraine, was killed and two Reuters journalists were injured in a strike on a hotel in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk. A Reuters story states, “Evans, who was working as a safety adviser for the agency, was killed after a missile struck the […]]]> https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/reuters-staffer-evans-killed-in-ukraine-attack/feed/ 0 https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/sabo-longtime-copy-editor-bloomberg-dies-at-67/ https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/sabo-longtime-copy-editor-bloomberg-dies-at-67/#respond Fri, 23 Aug 2024 17:20:08 +0000 https://talkingbiznews.com/?p=172656 Joe Sabo, who was a copy editor at Bloomberg news from 1994 to 2015, died Aug. 18 at the age of 67. Before Bloomberg, Sabo worked at the Daily Racing Form as an editor. After Bloomberg, he worked at the Asbury Park Press and Epoch Times as an editor and page designer. He held a bachelor’s […]]]> https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/sabo-longtime-copy-editor-bloomberg-dies-at-67/feed/ 0 https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/iskandar-former-ft-correspondent-dies-at-57/ https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/iskandar-former-ft-correspondent-dies-at-57/#respond Thu, 22 Aug 2024 17:51:49 +0000 https://talkingbiznews.com/?p=172641 Samer Iskandar, a former Financial Times correspondent, died on Aug. 13 at the age of 57. Youmna Melhem Chamieh of the FT writes, “Samer was a financier, teacher, researcher and journalist. To try to sum up his career across so many industries, roles and locations is a challenge perhaps only he could have risen to. […]]]> https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/iskandar-former-ft-correspondent-dies-at-57/feed/ 0 https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/bjorhus-longtime-biz-reporter-dies-at-59/ https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/bjorhus-longtime-biz-reporter-dies-at-59/#respond Sat, 17 Aug 2024 01:19:21 +0000 https://talkingbiznews.com/?p=172567 Jennifer Bjorhus, a business reporter at the St. Paul Pioneer Press and the Minneapolis Star Tribune, died Aug. 9 from gioblastoma. Kelly Smith of the Star Tribune writes, “She worked eight years on the West Coast as a reporter at the Seattle Times, the Oregonian and the San Jose Mercury News. By 2002, she returned to […]]]> https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/bjorhus-longtime-biz-reporter-dies-at-59/feed/ 0 https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/barr-former-bloomberg-tv-and-cnbc-reporter-dies-at-46/ https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/barr-former-bloomberg-tv-and-cnbc-reporter-dies-at-46/#respond Wed, 14 Aug 2024 19:57:00 +0000 https://talkingbiznews.com/?p=172528 Beccy Barr, who worked as a reporter for Bloomberg Television and CNBC, died at 46 from cancer. Helen Pidd of The Guardian writes, “Beccy studied government and economics at the London School of Economics, graduating in 2000, and then did a postgraduate diploma in newspaper journalism at City University. “One of her first TV jobs was […]]]> https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/barr-former-bloomberg-tv-and-cnbc-reporter-dies-at-46/feed/ 0 https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/thomas-executive-biz-editor-in-knoxville-dies-at-81/ https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/thomas-executive-biz-editor-in-knoxville-dies-at-81/#respond Tue, 30 Jul 2024 00:34:45 +0000 https://talkingbiznews.com/?p=172248 Lois Evelyn Reagan Thomas, retired executive business editor of The Knoxville News-Sentinel, died Thursday at the age of 81. An obituary states, “She came to work at the News-Sentinel in 1962 when she was a student at the University of Tennessee. She wrote the School Talk column and was a staff writer for what was […]]]> https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/thomas-executive-biz-editor-in-knoxville-dies-at-81/feed/ 0 https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/bell-former-toledo-blade-biz-journalist-dies-at-90/ https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/bell-former-toledo-blade-biz-journalist-dies-at-90/#respond Thu, 25 Jul 2024 15:38:47 +0000 https://talkingbiznews.com/?p=172178 Ned Bell, a business reporter who worked at the Toledo Blade for 30 years, died July 13 at the age of 90. Mike Sigov of The Blade writes, “Mr. Bell retired from The Blade in February, 1996, after 37 years in the newspaper business, including 30 years with The Blade, of which the last nearly […]]]> https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/bell-former-toledo-blade-biz-journalist-dies-at-90/feed/ 0 https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/tv-biz-news-anchor-dobbs-dies-at-78/ https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/tv-biz-news-anchor-dobbs-dies-at-78/#respond Thu, 18 Jul 2024 21:26:40 +0000 https://talkingbiznews.com/?p=172032 Lou Dobbs, the longtime business news anchor at CNN and then Fox Business, died on Thursday. He was 78. Oliver Darcy of CNN reports, “Dobbs had a lengthy career in broadcast journalism, spending more than two decades at CNN, which he joined at its inception in 1980 and anchoring the program “Moneyline.” Dobbs left CNN […]]]> https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/tv-biz-news-anchor-dobbs-dies-at-78/feed/ 0