Alan
Abelson
Barron’s
His Up and Down Wall
Street column has been a Wall Street institution
for more than three decades, combining humor and
in-depth research to consistently present the
contrarian view on stocks and the markets. He
served as editor of the weekly for a dozen
years. Mr. Abelson began his financial reporting
career at the New York Journal-American, where
he was the Markets columnist from 1952 to 1955.
From 1982 to 1990 he was a regular early-morning
commentator on NBC News.
Joseph
Ackell
Dow
Jones
Mr. Ackell brought
technological innovation to the news business,
clearing the way for important editorial
advancements. He introduced the
electro-typesetter in 1953, which the company
credits as the first step to enabling The Wall
Street Journal to produce identical papers at
multiple locations throughout the country. Mr.
Ackell also helped advance the ticker
technology. He worked for Dow Jones from 1919
until his retirement in 1966. He died in 1982 at
the age of 76.
John H.
Allan
The Bond
Buyer
He edited The Bond Buyer
for 11 years from 1980 through 1991 and was then
named executive editor before resuming the role
as editor in 1994. In the process, Mr. Allan is
credited with educating an entire generation of
municipal bond reporters and editors.
Jane
Amsterdam
Manhattan
Inc.
Ms. Amsterdam was founding
editor of Manhattan inc., a groundbreaking
monthly that was launched in 1984 and was among
the first to write about business executives as
celebrities and spin the tale of business in
such a manner as to appeal to non-business
readers. Although Manhattan, inc. was
short-lived, it influenced the business coverage
of other literary publications, including Vanity
Fair, The New Yorker and Talk. Prior to the
launch of Manhattan, inc., Ms. Amsterdam served
as executive editor of American
Lawyer.
Ken
Auletta
The New
Yorker/Author
This best-selling author
and staff writer for The New Yorker has written
such works as The Underclass, The
Highwaymen: Warriors of the Information
Superhighway and Greed and Glory on Wall
Street : The Fall of the House of Lehman.
Mr. Auletta was also a columnist for The New
York Daily News.
Nancy K.
Austin
Author
A regular contributor to
Inc. magazine who has also written for Working
Woman, this management consultant and writer
co-authored with Tom Peters A Passion for
Excellence: The Leadership
Difference.
Donald L.
Barlett
Philadelphia
Inquirer/Time
Along with James B.
Steele, he has taken the art of investigative
reporting to new heights, probing complex
subjects and making them relevant and
understandable to his readers. The duo, now with
Time magazine, won the Pulitzer Prize for
national reporting twice -- in 1975 for a series
"Auditing the Internal Revenue Service," and
again in 1989 for a 15-month investigation that
looked into the Tax Reform Act of
1986.
Isadore
Barmash
The New York
Times
For many years, Mr.
Barmash reigned supreme over New York's
retailing beat, one of the business section's
most closely watched areas of coverage. He spent
more than 26 years at the Times, joining the
paper from the New York Herald Tribune. At the
time of his retirement from the paper in 1991,
he had written a dozen books.
Martin
Baron
Los Angeles
Times
He served as editor of the
Los Angeles Times business section from 1984 to
1990, a period of significant growth for the
paper and its business coverage. His section was
honored in 1987 for its overall excellence by
the Gerald Loeb Awards. He subsequently served
as an assistant managing editor of the LA Times
and as editor of its Orange County
edition.
Clarence
Barron
The Wall
Street Journal
He is considered by many
to be the father of financial journalism. In
1904, he and his wife bought The Wall Street
Journal from co-founder Edward D. Jones, a
transaction that some believe saved the paper
from extinction. Mr. Barron served as president
of Dow Jones and began Barron's in 1921. He is
also credited with setting journalistic
standards for financial reporting that include
what is common now -- intense scrutiny of
financial information.
Robert L.
Bartley
Wall Street
Journal
Mr. Bartley, who began his
long career on the editorial staff for The Wall
Street Journal in 1964, has been editor of the
paper's editorial page since 1972. He won a
Pulitzer Prize in 1980 for editorial writing. He
is the author of The Seven Fat Years -- and
How to Do it Again.
Richard
Behar
Fortune
This highly decorated
investigative reporter has won numerous awards
including a 1992 Loeb award and a 1996 Polk
award, the later for a story about the
strong-arm tactics used by the Allstate
insurance company against its own employees. He
spent six years as investigative reporter for
Time as well as six years with Forbes. Mr. Behar
successfully defended a libel suit brought by
the Church of Scientology following an
investigative piece he wrote while still with
Time.
Mel
Beiser
Reuters/McGraw
Hill
Mr. Beiser pioneered
several developments in the field of real-time
electronic journalism. He was involved in the
establishment of the Nexis research service and
created and served as managing editor of the
Standard & Poor's News Service for McGraw
Hill. He was also founding managing editor of
AFX News, a London-based financial newswire. At
Reuters, he developed its economic service and
served as managing editor, Reuters North America
for two years along with several other posts. He
died July 14, 1999, at the age of 68.
Elliot V.
Bell
The New York
Times/Business Week
The longtime editor and
publisher of Business Week, Mr. Bell helped
found the New York Financial Writers Association
while with the New York Times and served as the
association’s first president. He served as
chairman of the executive committee of
McGraw-Hill Inc. He died in 1983.
John M.
Berry
The
Washington Post
Considered a leader among
reporters covering the Federal Reserve, Mr.
Berry, a highly respected economics reporter for
the Post, also authors the Sunday column "Basis
Points." He was a 1999 finalist for the Gerald
Loeb Awards. His 30-plus year career has
included stints at Forbes, Time and Business
Week. From 1977 to 1979, he was Forbes'
Washington bureau chief.
Larry
Birger
The Miami
Herald
Long before the idea
caught on, Mr. Birger was an active advocate for
improving the quality of business news in the
local press. He spent years developing and
promoting his vision for a special Monday
business supplement. Finally, in 1980, the Miami
Herald, a Knight-Ridder & Co. publication,
approved of the concept. Its editorial and
financial success led other major newspapers by
the dozens to follow suite. Mr. Birger served as
the Business/Monday editor for more than a
decade. Earlier in his career, from 1960 to
1980, he was business editor of the Miami
News.
Robert M.
Bleiberg
Barron’s
He spent 45 years at
Barron's, 27 of which he served as editor. Under
his direction, the weekly's circulation grew
fivefold. He died in 1997 at the age of
73.
Michael
Bloomberg
Bloomberg
News
In less than a decade, Mr.
Bloomberg built a global business and general
media empire that includes a newswire,
magazines, newsletters, book publisher, TV
network and New York radio station. His
newswire, in particular, challenged competitors
Dow Jones and Reuters to significantly upgrade
their own news services. While not a journalist
himself, Mr. Bloomberg invested heavily in
building a quality newsroom.
Margaret
Bourke-White
Fortune
Ms. Bourke-White was one
of the magazine's first photographers. While she
is best known for her work in Life magazine, she
began her career shooting industrial settings
for Fortune. Her photographs contributed to the
"coffee table" nature of the early Fortune. Her
success in a profession dominated by men and a
publication aimed at men, was all the more
difficult to come by. Ms. Bourke-White was known
for producing a large number of social
documentaries. She also captured world events as
they unfolded before her camera such as
Germany's initial attack on Moscow in World War
II.
James
Brady
Advertising
Age/Fairchild Publications
Since 1977, Mr. Brady has
written wide-ranging essays in column form for
Advertising Age. As editor-at-large of the
publication he also pens his people column
"Brady Bunch" and writes a weekly column for
fellow Crain publication Crain's New York
Business. He spent seven years as editor for
Women's Wear Daily as well as serving as
correspondent for Fairchild Publications. He is
the author of 11 books and writes a weekly
celebrity column for Parade.
Ray
Brady
CBS
News
Ray Brady is the longtime
CBS News business reporter who also served as an
assistant managing editor of Forbes magazine,
the associate editor of Barron's and the editor
of Dun's Review. He won an Emmy for his
reporting on the U.S. recession. In all, he has
reported on business news for nearly 50
years.
Louis
Brandeis
Harpers
He wrote about the
self-serving dealings of J.P. Morgan and
eventually went on to serve on the U.S. Supreme
Court.
Dorothea
Brooks
United Press
International
Ms. Brooks was the first
female business/financial editor of a major wire
service -- United Press International. At the
time, UPI was still a vibrant competitor to The
Associated Press. To this day, few women have
attained the top leadership post at a major
financial news outlet.
John
Brooks
Author
Mr. Brooks was an
award-winning and much admired staff writer for
The New Yorker magazine. This surveyor of
financial history wrote such classics as The
Go-Go Years: The Drama and Crashing Finale of
Wall Street’s Bullish 60s and Once in
Golconda; A True Drama of Wall Street,
1920-1938. Golconda was originally published
in 1969. His last book, The Takeover Game:
The Men, the Moves, and the Wall Street Money
Behind Today's Nationwide Merger Wars, was
published in 1987. He died in 1987
Connie
Bruck
Author/ New
Yorker/ The American Lawyer
Ms. Bruck, an
award-winning business journalist, served as
senior reporter for The American Lawyer and
wrote The Predators' Ball, a best seller
about junk-bond king Michael Milken and his
cadre of powerful friends. She joined the New
Yorker as a staff writer and also wrote
Master of the Game: Steve Ross and the
Creation of Time Warner.
Neil F.
Budde
The Wall
Street Journal/Interactive Edition
After working as a
business journalist and as deputy editorial
director for Dow Jones News Retrieval, Mr. Budde
was one of the primary architects behind The
Wall Street Journal/Interactive Edition. Under
his stewardship, the WSJ/IE has become the most
successful subscription-based news service on
the World Wide Web and the envy of many
publishers.
Bryan
Burrough
Author/The
Wall Street Journal
This four-time Gerald Loeb
award-winner authored the hugely successful
Barbarians at the Gate with co-author
John Helyar. He also wrote Vendetta: American
Express and the Smearing of Edmond Safra. He
spent nine years with The Wall Street Journal
before joining Vanity Fair as a contributing
editor. Mr. Burrough, with 17 years of
big-league reporting under his belt, is not yet
40 years old.
Harlan S.
Byrne
Barron’s/The
Wall Street Journal
He began his Dow Jones
career at The Wall Street Journal in 1949 and
held numerous positions until 1985, including
several bureau chief jobs. Mr. Byrne was
nominated by The Wall Street Journal for the
Gerald R. Loeb Award and a Pulitzer Prize. He
currently serves as Midwest editor for
Barron's.
Christopher
M. Byron
New York/New
York Daily News
This former Forbes
assistant managing editor and associate business
editor for Time penned New York magazine's The
Bottom Line column for six years and then served
as a columnist for the New York Daily News. He
also contributed regularly to Worth and Esquire
and authored Skin Tight: The Bizarre Story of
Guess v. Jordache..
Herbert
N. Casson
Munsey’s
Magazine
Although his publication
is long since defunct, Mr. Casson is remembered
as a crusading investigative journalist who
early this century took corporations to task for
their greed and exploitation of people and
resources.
Gene
Cervi
The Rocky
Mountain Business Journal and the Denver Rocky
Mountain News
Far away from the major
financial centers of New York and Chicago and
long before other cities the size of Denver ever
thought it possible, he founded a weekly local
business newspaper, chock full of news,
statistics and government records/filings. In
doing so, he opened the door to an entire
industry of weekly business journals across the
United States. His decision to focus on business
news forced his competitors at the Denver Post
and the Rocky Mountain News to pay greater
attention to business news.
John
Chamberlain
King
Features/The New York Times/The Wall Street
Journal/ Barron’s and Fortune
In a journalism career
that spanned more than six decades, he wrote
feature articles on business and labor for
Fortune, reported financial stories for Barron's
magazine, and wrote essays for The Wall Street
Journal. For 25 years, until 1985, he wrote a
syndicated column for King Features on
political, economic and social issues. He died
in 1995 at the age of 91.
Patrick
Chu
Bloomberg
News
As San Francisco bureau
chief for Bloomberg News, Mr. Chu has directed
coverage of Silicon Valley companies during a
period of rapid growth and change. He was
formerly the business editor of The Portland
Oregonian and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and
spent nine years with USA Today.
Harold
Chucker
Minneapolis
Star Tribune
As business editor, he
focused on complex economic issues and small
business, becoming one of the most respected
business journalists in the Twin Cities. He died
in 1997 at the age of 79.
William R.
Clabby
The Wall
Street Journal
After working as a
reporter, Mr. Clabby rose in the ranks at Dow
Jones and eventually headed the company's
information services division, including the Dow
Jones News Wire and Telerate. In all, he spent
43 years with the company, including stints at a
Page One editor and New York Bureau chief. Late
in his career, he was involved in Dow Jones'
early explorations of translating its news
products into television programming. He helped
spearhead a failed bid to acquire the Financial
News Network in 1991. He died in
1997.
Lindley H.
Clark, Jr.
The Wall
Street Journal
Mr. Clark was the longtime
author of The Wall Street Journal's "Speaking of
Business" column and its Page One "The Outlook"
column. His observations on the economy were
closely watched by business and government
alike.
Robert J.
Cole
The New York
Times
He was the first full-time
reporter to cover the mergers and acquisitions
beat, beginning as early as 1977 and continuing
for nearly 14 years. In the early 1980s, when
hostile takeovers became regular events, Mr.
Cole was known for his ability to get close to
investment bankers and corporate raiders. He
joined the Times in 1962 and accepted a buyout
in 1991.
Edward R.
Cony
The Wall
Street Journal
While serving as news
editor for the Wall Street Journal, he received
the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
for investigative reporting. In 1965, he was
named managing editor of the paper, a post he
held for about five years. Mr. Cony was later
named executive editor of Dow Jones and was
elected president of American Society of
Newspaper Editors.
Dan
Cordtz
Financial
World/ABC-TV/Fortune
This longtime
award-winning business journalist spent 13 years
as economics editor for ABC-TV. He not only
reported for the evening news, he also anchored
the network's nightly Business Briefs, the first
such network broadcast. Later, he served as
Financial World's managing editor. He also spent
11 years with Fortune and held various reporting
and editing posts with The Wall Street Journal.
He started his career in 1949 as a Journal copy
boy.
G. D. Crain,
Jr.
Crain
Communications
Mr. Crain spent his life
enveloped in the news business, writing, editing
and publishing for 57 years. He founded Crain
Communications in 1916 with the launch of
Hospital Management magazine. Advertising Age
began in 1930. His column, "Rough Proofs," ran
in Ad Age for 35 years under the byline Copy
Cub. Today, Crain Communications is home to 30
publications, including leaders in trade and
regional business journalism.
Gertrude
Crain
Crain
Communications
As chairman of the board
for Crain Communications from 1974 until 1996,
she grew the publisher's periodicals from five
to 25 and saw her staff increase from 100 to
1,000. During her tenure, Crain's Chicago
Business was launched in 1978 as well as other
regional publications. While her husband, G.D.
Crain Jr. had the journalistic credentials, her
business savvy and oversight kept his dream and
hard work alive and growing.
James J.
Cramer
The
Street.com
Mr. Cramer is a prolific
journalist and commentator who often riles the
establishment with his pointed criticisms. He
represents a new breed of investment writers,
not just telling readers his opinions, but
making his living as a money manager. As an
investor in Dow Jones, he lobbied hard for the
company to rid itself of its Telerate division,
which it eventually did. Mr. Cramer is perhaps
best known as a founder and columnist of
TheStreet.com, a paid Internet news service that
went public in 1999, making millionaires of some
of its principals. The success of the
TheStreet.com has whetted the appetite of many
business journalists to follow in Mr. Cramer's
footsteps.
Burton
Crane
New York
Times
The well-known business
columnist and business writer's career spanned
the 1930s through the 1950s, with the Wall
Street Journal and then the New York Times. He
is credited with coining a number of business
and financial phrases, including using the word
"correction" in reference to the stock market.
At one point in 1930, he was reporting from
Tokyo. He wrote the book The Sophisticated
Investor. He died in 1963.
Dr. Mildred
Culp
Universal
Press Syndicate columnist
Her Workwise column, which
emphasizes job effectiveness and relationships
at work, was begun in 1992 and has been
described as “thoughtful,” “engaging”
and “sensible” by her readers. She also
wrote Be WorkWise: Retooling Your Work for
the 21st Century.
John
Cunniff
Associated
Press
He is a longtime
Associated Press reporter and author of the
Business Mirror column and a Polk Award winner
for national reporting.
Chet
Currier
Associated
Press
Mr. Currier served as Wall
Street reporter for the Associated Press for
many years. He has authored several books, among
them The Investor’s Encyclopedia,
The 15-Minute Investor, Careers in the
'80s and Careers in the '90s. He is
now with Bloomberg News.
Robert
E. Dallos
Los Angeles
Times
For 25 years, he was a
financial writer for the Los Angeles Times,
winning the John Hancock Award for Excellence in
Business and Financial Reporting. Mr. Dallos was
particularly influential and well respected for
his coverage of the airline industry. Before
joining the Times, he wrote for UPI, The Wall
Street Journal and The New York Times. He died
in 1991 at the age of 59.
L.J.
Davis
Atlantic/Harper’s/The
New York Times
As a freelance writer, Mr.
Davis has contributed insightful, riveting
articles on such topics as urban redevelopment
in the 1970s and takeovers in the 1980s. Because
of the care he takes in researching and writing
his stories, he has often gotten access to key
business and industry executives whom otherwise
shun the media.
John A.
Dierdorff
Business
Week
This retired managing
editor of Business Week spent 36 years leading
and helping to guide the weekly, retiring in
1992. He was at the helm during the 1988 probe
into insider trading at the magazine. He went on
to be involved with Business Week Online as the
facilitator of interactive features of the
service.
Lou
Dobbs
CNN
Lou Dobbs was the face of
business news on Cable New Network for nearly 20
years. Behind the scenes, he served the network
and its sister, CNNfn, as an executive who
wielded considerable clout. Under his direction,
CNN grew to be regarded as the most respected
cable television source of business and
financial news. He hired and helped train many
of today's most successful business broadcast
journalists. Mr. Dobbs won numerous awards,
including the George Foster Peabody award for
his coverage of the 1987 stock market crash. It
was during his tenure that broadcast news on
television became a must-watch for professional
investors.
Dan
Dorfman
Money/USA
Today/CNBC/CNN/The Wall Street
Journal
Dan Dorfman is a living
legend among financial columnists. During the
1980s, his every word was watched by investors
and speculators, because he daily moved stocks
and markets. At the height of his influence,
trading on the CBOE was halted for a period
after his television appearances to allow for an
orderly market. The halt came to be known as
"The Dorfman Rule." Mr. Dorfman began in the mid
1950s as a copy boy at Fairchild Publications
where he later wrote about boyswear and retail
management. In the 1960s he wrote for the New
York Herald Tribune and its successor, the World
Journal Tribune. For six years he wrote The Wall
Street Journal's Heard On The Street column
before moving to New York magazine's Bottom Line
and then on to Full Disclosure for Esquire. He
also had columns with the Chicago Tribune
syndicate. In 1987, Mr. Dorfman began to write
two columns a week for USA Today, while he was
also a commentator for CNN's Moneyline. In 1990,
after nearly a decade, he left CNN in a highly
publicized move to join rival CNBC, where he
made daily, closely watched appearances on Money
Wheel. Finally, after eight years, Mr. Dorfman
also left USA Today for a position as senior
writer at Money. Since March 1999, has been
authoring a daily business report for
JagNotes.com.
Philip H.
Dougherty
The New York
Times
For much of the 22 years
that he covered the advertising beat for The New
York Times, Mr. Dougherty was one of the most
influential business columnists in the country.
Advertising industry executives had to read his
daily coverage and non-business readers often
looked to it for his entertaining insights. When
he died in 1988, his colleagues praised him for
looking beyond the self-promotion of the
industry and judging stories on their merit
alone.
Mark
Dowie
Mother
Jones
This award-winning
journalist broke new investigative ground with
his 1977 Ford Pinto scandal. He also broke
stories on the Dalkon Shield.
William A.
Doyle
Syndicated
columnist
He was a reporter,
columnist and business editor during his 45-year
career, including stints at the New York
World-Telegram & Sun and New York Daily
News.
Peter
Ferdinand Drucker
author/consultant
This former journalist
became the godfather of management writing in
the United States with such works as
Management Challenges for the 21st Century
and The Practice of
Management.
Walker
Evans
Fortune
Mr. Evans was one of the
magazine's early photographers, noted for his
poetic use of the lens. He specialized in
photographing common surroundings and causing
people to see them in a new light. He helped
initiate a documentary style of photography and
provided us with an indelible image of Americans
in the Great Depression of the 1930s. His
numerous photographic essays in Fortune included
Labor Anonymous, Chicago, and In the Heart of
the Black Belt.
Louis
W. Fairchild
Fairchild
Publications, Inc.
He served as publisher and
chairman of Fairchild Publications and was an
important force behind the development of trade
journalism in this country. Fairchild
Publications is home to several large trade
publications including Women's Wear Daily and
Supermarket News.
Robert J.
Flaherty
Equities/Forbes
After a 20 years career at
Forbes magazine, he set out to publish his own
magazine. Mr. Flaherty has used Equities
magazine, which he owns, to champion a number of
editorial causes and to shed light on companies
and topics that the major business newsmagazines
overlook.
James
Flanigan
Los Angeles
Times
This senior economics
editor and business columnist for the LA Times
has covered national and international business
and economics for 35 years. He began his
financial journalism career at The New York
Herald Tribune and then spent more than a dozen
years with Forbes magazine, including a stint as
assistant managing editor. He joined the Times
in 1986. He won the John Hancock Award for
Excellence in Business and Financial Journalism
for a series of columns about the stock market
crash, the falling dollar and Japan's influence
on the world economy.
Jerry
Flint
Forbes/The
New York Times/The Wall Street Journal
A native of Detroit, Mr.
Flint is one of the most-tenured and
most-respected automotive business writers in
the country. He has worked from the Motor City
for both the Wall Street Journal and the New
York Times, serving from 1967 to 1973 at the
Times' Detroit bureau chief. He joined Forbes in
1979.
B.C.
Forbes
Forbes
/Journal of Commerce/New York American
In the early part of the
century, Mr. Forbes was a prolific and respected
business writer. His early career included
stints at the Journal of Commerce and the New
York American. Even after founding his namesake
magazine in 1917, he continued to write for
others. His "Fact and Comment" column was
syndicated by Hearst newspapers from 1911-1942.
Forbes magazine predated both Business Week and
Fortune by more than a decade. Many of Forbes'
editorial features today had their roots in B.C.
Forbes earliest editions. He died in
1954.
Malcolm
Forbes
Forbes
In the annals of business
and financial journalism, it is doubtful that
any one editor and publisher was better known or
more loved by his readers. Mr. Forbes was one
part showman, one part publisher and one part
inspired journalist. It was his idea, despite
much internal skepticism, to identify and rank
the 400 wealthiest individuals, a franchise that
has generated tens, if not hundreds, of millions
of dollars for the magazine. At a time when
Forbes could easily have succumbed to
competition from Business Week and Fortune, both
owned by much larger media giants, Mr. Forbes
used splash and his own "Capitalist Pig"
charisma to keep Forbes in
contention.
Alix M.
Freedman
The Wall
Street Journal
Ms. Freedman has won
several journalism awards for her outstanding
investigative work including the 1996 Pulitzer
Prize in the national affairs category for her
ongoing coverage of the tobacco industry. In
1998, she won the George Polk Award for
excellence in journalism in international
reporting for "Population Bomb." Before joining
the Journal in 1984, she was with Business Week
and The New York Times.
J.K.
Galbraith
Fortune
He joined Fortune in 1943
and was on and off staff for five years. He has
written numerous articles and books including
Culture of Contentment and A Short
History of Financial Euphoria.
Michael
Gartner
The Wall
Street Journal
Mr. Gartner spent 14 years
at The Wall Street Journal. From 1969 to 1974,
he served as the paper's Page One editor. He is
best remembered for perfecting the art of the
A-head, the paper's offbeat front-page,
middle-column feature. He, himself, wrote the
feature everyday for almost four years. His
A-head on the carrot - "This morning we will
discuss carrots" - is legendary.
Paul Gibson
Forbes/Financial
World/Author
After 10 years at Forbes
where he served as staff writer, associate
editor and senior editor, Mr. Gibson eventually
went to Financial World as executive editor and
where he wrote the Media Watch column. He wrote
the book Bear Trap : Why Wall Street Doesn't
Work.
George
Gilder
Author
In his books, which
include Wealth and Poverty, and his op-ed
pieces in The Wall Street Journal over the last
20 years, Gilder has been an uncanny seer of the
technological and economic trends that have
changed the global business world.
Oliver S.
Gingold
The Wall
Street Journal
A newspaper institution,
he coined the term "blue-chip stock" during his
half-century career with The Wall Street Journal
where he wrote the daily "Abreast of the Market"
column for more than three decades.
Kathleen D.
Gill
The Bureau
of National Affairs
As editor-in-chief and
vice president, she oversees this leading
publisher of print and electronic news and
information. The company reports on developments
in business, labor relations, law, health care,
economics, taxation, environmental protection,
health and safety, and other public policy and
regulatory areas.
Marian
Glenn
Forbes
Ms. Glenn served as an
associate editor and columnist for Forbes. The
first issue of the publication included her
column, "Women in Business." Given the year was
1917, both she and the publication were far
ahead of their times.
Bernard H.
Goldhirsh
Inc.
Magazine
Mr. Goldhirsh founded Inc.
magazine in 1979, back when most major news
outlets had little, if any, coverage of
entrepreneurship. Mr. Goldhirsh wanted a
publication geared toward builders and
visionaries, not the Wall Street audience so
desired by other business magazines. Mr.
Goldhirsh's timing was impeccable and Inc. rode
the wave of interest in small business to a
place of prominence. Other, much larger,
publishing companies are still playing catch up.
In 1986, Mr. Goldhirsh acquired Business Month
magazine and tried unsuccessfully to revive the
ailing publication.
George J.W.
Goodman, a.k.a. Adam
Smith
PBS/Institutional
Investor
Mr. Goodman has been a PBS
staple since 1984 and done much to influence the
very definition of broadcast business
journalism. His program won four Emmy awards and
was broadcast in 23 countries. Long before his
leap to television, Mr. Goodman was a skilled
money manager, best-selling author and
pioneering journalist. His best-known work, The
Money Game, was published in 1968. He was
founding editor of Institutional Investor and a
former member of the editorial board of The New
York Times. He also was a founder of New York
magazine. Historian Teddy White said his style
revolutionized the field of financial
writing.
Jordan E.
Goodman
Money/Author
A long-time personal
finance journalist and author, Mr. Goodman came
to prominence during his stint at Money
magazine. His books include Everyone’s
Money Book and Barron’s Finance &
Investment Handbook, which he co-authored
with John Downes.
Leslie
Gould
New York
Journal-American
He served as business
editor and columnist and was known for
muckracking in the 1950s and 1960s.
Earl G.
Graves
Black
Enterprise
He founded Black
Enterprise in 1970, recognizing the dearth of
relevant coverage among mainstream business
publications. The magazine, which has been
profitable since its 10th issue, received the
FOLIO: 1996 Editorial Excellence Award for
Business/Finance.
William
Greider
Author
In such books as
Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal
Reserve Runs the Country and One World,
Ready: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism,
Mr. Greider raises left-of-center concerns about
the New Economy and economic
globalization.
William Henry
Grimes
The Wall
Street Journal
Mr. Grimes is considered
the father of The Wall Street Journal editorial
page, where he served as editor from 1941 until
1958. Prior to that, he was managing editor from
1937 to 1941. He won the Journal's first
Pulitzer Prize for his editorials advocating
free men and free markets.
Louis
Guenther
Financial
World
In 1902, Mr. Guenther,
along with this father, Otto, founded Financial
World, a publication dedicated to exposing
securities fraud. He, himself, was a fiery
journalist who used his magazine to crusade for
full financial disclosure by companies. Under
Mr. Guenther's guidance, the periodical
published the Independent Appraisals of Stocks
beginning in 1922, which were the basis for
published stock-rating systems. Throughout its
history, Financial World was known for its
extensive company profiles and subsequently for
its Annual Reports competition. Mr. Guenther
worked at the magazine until his death in 1953.
The magazine continued publishing until
1998.
Joseph M.
Guilfoyle
The Wall
Street Journal
Mr. Guilfoyle began as a
messenger boy for the Wall Street Journal at age
14, and spent the next 60 years in a variety of
capacities for the paper and Dow Jones. Among
his assignments, he was a star reporter for the
paper and served as editor of the Dow Jones
news-ticker. He was honored in 1984 with the
Elliott V. Bell Award for lifetime
achievement.
Vaughn
Hagerty
Hispanic
Business
He serves as the
20-year-old monthly magazine’s managing
editor.
Cheryl
Hall
Dallas
Morning News
During her 10-year term as
business editor, Ms. Hall not only grew that
paper's business section, but expanded the role
of business news in general interest newspapers.
As finance editor, she now writes a weekly
column for the paper called "Ideas at Work." She
is a past president of the Society of American
Business Editors and Writers.
George H.
Harmon
Medill
School of Journalism at Northwestern
This former financial
editor of the Chicago Sun-Times and former
assistant managing editor of the Chicago Daily
News has spent the last 20 years overseeing the
business journalism component of Medill's
graduate program. Many of today's most
successful business reporters trained under Mr.
Harmon.
Henry
Hazlitt
The Wall
Street Journal/Syndicated Columnist/The
Freeman
Mr. Hazlitt, who began his
career at The Wall Street Journal in the 1910s,
went on to work for several New York papers, and
then as a columnist for Newsweek and as an
internationally syndicated columnist before
serving as editor-in-chief of The Freeman. He
died in 1993 at the age of 99.
John
Helyar
The Wall
Street Journal/Author
Mr. Helyar co-authored the
famously successful Barbarians at The
Gate with then fellow Wall Street Journal
reporter Bryan Burrough. At The Wall Street
Journal where he worked for 18 years except for
two book leaves and a short departure to start a
lifestyle magazine, Mr. Helyar covered
management and sports and worked in the Atlanta
bureau. He also penned Lord of the Realm: The
Real History of Baseball. He joined Money in
1998 as a senior writer.
Jim
Henderson
USA
Today
As deputy managing editor
of the Money Section, he has quietly been behind
the scenes building the paper’s business
coverage reputation.
Susan
Herera
CNBC
Ms. Herera has been a
fixture in business television since 1981, when
she signed on as an anchor for the fledgling
Financial News Network upon graduation from
journalism school. She joined CNBC in December
1989 and recently became co-anchor of its
primetime "Business Center."
Robert D.
Hershey, Jr.
The New York
Times
Since 1962, Mr. Hershey
has been with the Times including an 18-year
stint as Washington correspondent. In January
1998, he transferred to New York to write for
the Sunday Business section.
Arlene
Hershman
Business
Month
Ms. Hershman, who was
appointed editor of (Dun's) Business Month in
1984, was the first woman ever named to the top
editorial post of a major business magazine. She
served in that capacity until February 1988. She
first joined the magazine in 1967 and became
assistant managing editor in 1980. As a writer
for Dun's, Ms. Hershman covered Wall Street,
economics, corporate finance and wrote a monthly
column on investing. For many years, she was
responsible for the magazine's annual selection
of the Five Best-Managed Companies.
John Hillkirk
II
USA
Today
The only remaining staff
member for the Money section from when the paper
was launched in 1982, Mr. Hillkirk, as managing
editor, has advanced the paper into "must-read"
status with its enterprise stories, occasional
scoops and thoughtful analysis.
Eric
Hodgins
Fortune
Known as a strong writer,
in 1934 he wrote an article titled "Arms and the
Men," that won acclaim and even The New Yorker
recommended it for a Pulitzer Prize. He became
managing editor of Fortune in 1935 and publisher
in 1937. In 1938, he was made a vice president
for Time Inc. He resigned from the company in
1946 to devote more time to writing. As late as
1947 he was still writing for the publication.
In that year, he wrote a fiction article for
Fortune that was turned into a Cary Grant movie.
Mr. Hodgins began his journalism career in 1926
as an editor of Youth Companion and then was an
associate editor of Redbook.
Kenneth “Casey”
Hogate
The Wall
Street Journal
If Bernard Kilgore gets
credit for creating the modern-day Wall Street
Journal, Mr. Hogate gets credit for hiring and
promoting Mr. Kilgore and other early Journal
luminaries, such as William Henry Grimes. Mr.
Hogate joined the Journal in 1921 as chief of
its Detroit news bureau. A year later he was
transferred to New York and another year later
he became its managing editor. He was named
president of Dow Jones in 1933 and at the time
of his death in 1947 was the chairman of the
company. In his capacity as managing editor, he
introduced cartoons, stock-market quotations and
various columns to the paper
Ernest
Holsendolph
The New York
Times/The Cleveland Plain Dealer/The Atlanta
Journal Constitution
Mr. Holsendolph's long
career includes positions at Fortune, the now
defunct The Washington Star and The Cleveland
Press and 11 years covering business and
economics for The New York Times. He served as
business editor for five years at The Cleveland
Plain Dealer before joining The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution in 1989 where he writes a
business column.
Lucien
Hooper
Forbes
Mr. Hooper penned a column
for Forbes for 29 years and was former president
of the New York Society of Security Analysts and
once financial editor of the Boston
Commercial.
Karen Elliott
House
The Wall
Street Journal
As foreign editor from
1984 to 1989, Ms. House is credited with raising
the global I.Q. of American business readers
during the 1980s when the Journal's
international business pages were elevated to
the category of "World Class." She won a
Pulitzer Prize in 1984.
John W. Huey,
Jr.
Fortune
As managing editor of
Fortune, he has transformed the publication's
technology coverage and is credited with making
Fortune a publication that appeals more widely
to a younger generation. He began his career at
the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and spent more
than a dozen years at the Wall Street Journal
including a stint as founding managing editor of
The Wall Street Journal Europe. In his current
capacity, he also oversees Money magazine and
FSB (Fortune Small Business), formerly known as
Your Company. He was co-author of retailing king
Sam Walton's autobiography.
Youssef
M. Ibrahim
The New York
Times/The Wall Street Journal
He covered Opec and the
petroleum industry for both The New York Times
and The Wall Street Journal. At the peak of OPEC’s
global clout, his coverage moved markets and was
closely watched around the globe. His subsequent
reporting on the political intrigues in the
Middle East had important business and financial
implications.
Ron
Insana
CNBC
Mr. Insana serves as
senior anchor for CNBC where he co-anchors
"Business Center" and also hosts "Street Signs."
In 1988, he was part of the Financial News
Network team nominated for cable's Golden Ace
award for outstanding coverage of the 1987 stock
market crash. He has written Traders' Tales:
A Chronicle of Wall Street Myths, Legends and
Outright Lies, which was published in 1996.
He is one of broadcast journalism's most trusted
anchors.
Wanda
Jablonski
Petroleum
Intelligence Weekly
After starting her career
at the Journal of Commerce where she served as
oil editor and then serving as senior editor of
Petroleum Week, Ms. Jablonski founded the highly
respected "Petroleum Intelligence Weekly"
newsletter, which has been credited with
introducing investigative journalism to the oil
world. She died in 1992 at the age of
71.
Mike
Jensen
NBC
News
The Emmy Award-winning
chief financial correspondent has reported on
every major economic event of the last three
decades. Before joining NBC, he was an
award-winning financial reporter and editor for
The New York Times.
John
Jessop
Telerate
Mr. Jessop, whose career
includes work as a financial reporter for
Reuters, has spent much of his career in the
market data industry. He was managing director
of Telerate Europe and then Telerate's executive
vice president. He is currently president and
CEO of Telerate, which was recently acquired
from Dow Jones by Bridge Information
Systems.
Myron
Kandel
CNN/The
Washington Star/The New York Herald Tribune/The
New York Post
Mr. Kandel is a rare
member of the journalism profession, having led
by example and worked tirelessly for the
improvement of the craft. He has enjoyed a
successful career in both print and broadcast
journalism, and served twice as president of the
Society of American Business Editors and
Writers. He has taught journalism at New York's
City University and Columbia University. In
1994, the Society of American Business Editors
and Writers honored Mr. Kandel with its
Distinguished Achievement Award in recognition
of his 43-year career. More than anyone else,
Mr. Kandel deserves credit for developing CNN's
early business news programming. It was he, who
hired Lou Dobbs to the fledgling network. His
regular commentaries in the ensuing two decades
have become a staple of broadcast business
journalism. Prior to his broadcasting career,
Mr. Kandel served as financial editor at three
large metros -- The Washington Star, The New
York Herald and the New York Post. Also, Mr.
Kandel was editor of The New York Law Journal; a
syndicated columnist; foreign correspondent
covering Germany and the Common Market for the
Herald; and a financial reporter for The New
York Times. He is also an author.
Paul
Kangas
Nightly
Business Report
As co-anchor and financial
commentator, he is one of television's leading
providers of daily stock market information. He
joined NBR when it began as a local program in
Miami in 1979.
Gilbert
Kaplan
Institutional
Investor
Mr. Kaplan founded
Institutional Investor in 1967 with an initial
circulation of 18,000. By 1992, its 25th
anniversary, II's circulation totaled 130,000
and reached 150 countries. The magazine also
created a successful newsletter division and an
international edition was begun in 1976. Under
Mr. Kaplan's guidance as editor-in-chief,
Institutional Investor won nearly 50 awards for
distinguished journalism including a National
Magazine Award for reporting in 1983. Mr. Kaplan
sold the magazine in 1984 to Capital Cities for
$72 million.
Monroe “Bud”
Karmin
The Wall
Street Journal
He won the 1967 Pulitzer
Prize while on staff for the Wall Street Journal
for a story he and Stanley Penn did about
gambling in the Bahamas. He later worked for the
Chicago Daily News, Knight-Ridder Financial
News, U.S. News and World Report and then
Bloomberg News Service.
Joseph
Kaselow
New York
Herald Tribune
Joseph Kaselow was the
legendary New York Herald Tribune columnist who
covered the advertising industry. For 15 years
he wrote "Along Madison Avenue with Kaselow," a
daily column for the Herald Tribune and then the
World Journal Tribune. After a decade of working
for public relations firms, he returned to
journalism in 1977 writing a twice-weekly column
for the New York Post. He died in 1986 at the
age of 73.
William H.
Kerby
The Wall
Street Journal
His career with The Wall
Street Journal spanned nearly half a century and
included every major position on the news staff
before he moved over to the business side and
rose to chairman of Dow Jones & Co. As
president and then chairman, he saw the paper
diversify into community newspapers, overseas
publishing and electronic information services.
He died in 1989 at the age of 81.
C.M.
Keys
World’s
Work
The writer chronicled the
evolution of American industry in the early part
of the century and espoused service and
democracy as the watchwords of the period for
business.
Bernard
"Barney" Kilgore
The Wall
Street Journal
More than any other
journalist, living or dead, Mr. Kilgore
personified the best of The Wall Street Journal.
It is he, after all, who initiated many of the
newspaper's editorial features and philosophies.
Mr. Kilgore redefined business news as "all news
of interest to businessmen." On the business
side, Mr. Kilgore recognized the importance of
technology and harnessed it to allow the Journal
to become the first truly national newspaper.
Among the first names new recruits hear upon
their induction into the paper's ranks is that
of Mr. Kilgore, who more than 30 years after his
death is still revered by today's newsroom
leaders. Mr. Kilgore joined the paper in 1929
and became its managing editor in 1941. He
served a president of Dow Jones from 1945 to
1966, and chairman from 1966 to the time of his
death in 1967. In 1958, he established The
Newspaper Fund, a program to encourage better
journalism education.
Austin H.
Kiplinger
Kiplingers
Personal Finance (Changing Times)
Along with his father, he
founded Changing Times in 1947, which pioneered
the concept of personal finance and service
journalism. Not until 1980, 33 years after its
founding, did the magazine accept advertising,
preferring to be beholden only to its
subscribers. Even today, Kiplinger's is known
and highly regarded for its editorial fairness
and usefulness. Mr. Kiplinger also oversaw his
family's other editorial ventures, including The
Kiplinger Washington Letter.
W. M.
Kiplinger
Kiplingers
Personal Finance (Changing Times)
The son of a carriage
maker, Mr. Kiplinger personally penned the "The
Kiplinger Washington Letter," which he began in
1923 and today is among the most widely read
business forecasting periodicals in the world.
With his son, Austin, he launched "The Kiplinger
Magazine" in 1947 today known as "Kiplinger's
Personal Finance Magazine." His grandson,
Knight, now oversees the family
business.
Margaret A.
Klein
Reuters
After serving as Reuters
financial services editor in North America, she
became managing editor of Reuters North American
operations. In 1977, she became the first woman
president of the New York Financial Writers
Association.
Sonny
Kleinfeld
New York
Times/author
This Sunday New York Times
reporter authored several books including
Staying at the Top : The Life of a CEO
, The Biggest Company on Earth : A Profile of
AT&T , and he co-authored Talking
Straight, the sequel to Lee Iacocca's
Iacocca: An Autobiography. He is a widely
respected feature writer.
John
Koten
Worth/The
Wall Street Journal
Mr. Koten, who has been
editor of Worth since 1993, joined the magazine
after 15 years with The Wall Street Journal,
including three years as Chicago bureau chief.
During his tenure as bureau chief, the bureau
gained a strong reputation for innovative
coverage and storytelling.
Larry
Kramer
Marketwatch.com
Larry Kramer is the
founder of MarketWatch.com. He first proposed
the creation of the joint venture between Data
Broadcasting Corp. and CBS and has led the
company through its launch in Oct. 1997. He also
managed the company through its successful IPO
in January 1999. He has worked as a reporter for
the San Francisco Examiner and The Washington
Post and in various editorial postitions at both
papers. During his career in the newspaper
business, he has won a National Press Club
Award, Gerald E. Loeb Award and Associated Press
Awards for reporting. His staffs have won the
Pulitzer Prize, Overseas Press Club Award,
Seldon Ring Investigative Reporting Award and
National Headliners Award.
Albert L.
Kraus
Journal of
Commerce
After several years at The
New York Times where he served as banking
reporter, assistant financial editor and
columnist, Mr. Kraus joined The Bond Buyer and
eventually the Journal of Commerce where he
served as editor. He won the Elliott V. Bell
Award for lifetime achievement while with the
Journal of Commerce. Mr. Kraus is remembered
most for the great leadership he provided his
staffs and his encouragement and training of
many young reporters. Among his many
prot‚g‚s is Joseph Lelyveld, who went
on to win a Pulitzer Prize for the Times and is
now the paper's top editor. Mr. Kraus died in
1996.
Robert
Krulwich
ABC
News/National Public Radio/PBS/CBS
This ABC News
correspondent received numerous awards while a
business and economics correspondent with NPR,
including a Champion Award from the Amos Tuck
Business School. A regular contributor to PBS,
Krulwich won the 1991 George Polk Award for a
"Frontline" investigative report on the savings
and loan scandal, and in 1996, a Emmy for a
"Frontline" on business and computers. He was
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