Notable Journalists A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z  The following journalists were nominated for the Top 100 Business News Luminaries of the Century Awards. Their nominations were derived from a variety of sources, including official bios of the nominees, nominators, and TJFR Group databases. The short narratives reflect information available at the time of nomination, and are not intended to be the definitive biographical compilations of the individuals. In its December 1999 issue, TJFR Group published more extensive profiles of the 100 award recipients. 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 also with CBS News. Many viewers liked Mr. Krulwich's original and fresh style of presenting business news. Eve Krzyzanowski Financial News Network A veteran television business news director, Ms. Krzyzanowski held the title of vice president of news programming for FNN and played a crucial role in the cable television network's staffing and programming. She also served as executive producer of This Morning's Business, a half-hour business news program that was aired on more than 150 U.S. stations including all of CBS' owned and operated outlets. Ms. Krzyzanowski started at FNN in 1985 as a senior producer. She left the network in late 1989. Ken Kurson Green/Esquire Mr. Kurson, a contributing editor and financial columnist for Esquire and a regular on CNNfn, founded Green, a personal financial “funzine” he says was aimed at hipsters and young people who “sat on the sidelines.” Last year he published The Green Magazine Guide to Personal Finance: A No B.S. Book for Your Twenties and Thirties. Jonathan Kwitny The Wall Street Journal He was the Journal’s lead investigative reporter during the 1970s and had a knack for investigating complicated business matters. A couple of years after joining the Journal, he wrote a series of articles on white-collar crime in the United States that led to his book, The Fountain Pen Conspiracy. Frank Lalli Money During Mr. Lalli's eight-year tenure as managing editor of Money, the magazine provided many newsworthy surveys, rankings and events. In 1995, it won the first-ever National Magazine Award for general excellence in new media following the launch of its Web site. Before joining Money, Mr. Lalli served as associate editor responsible for business coverage for the New York Daily News and also as an editor at New York Magazine, Forbes and House & Home Peter Landau Institutional Investor For 20 years, he served as the monthly magazine's editor, and during his tenure Institutional Investor won 40 various awards. Prior to joining the publication he spent 12 years with Newsweek magazine including a stint as associate editor of the business section. Laura Landro The Wall Street Journal Ms. Landro, formerly with Business Week, joined The Wall Street Journal in 1981 as a reporter covering the entertainment, cable and publishing industries. She has since been promoted to senior editor, overseeing the paper's coverage of the entertainment industry. She won a 1986 Loeb award for her article on Gulf & Western Industries. She is the author of Survivor: Taking Charge of Your Fight Against Cancer. Erwin Laurance The Seattle Times For nearly a quarter century, from 1953 to 1977, he oversaw the business and financial coverage in the paper. John F. Lawrence The Los Angeles Times Mr. Lawrence was a key architect of the paper's award-winning daily business section. He left the paper in 1987 after 19 years, including three years as its Washington bureau chief (1972-1975). When Mr. Lawrence arrived at the Times as financial editor in 1968, its daily business pages were located behind the sports section, and the Times' total business staff consisted of eight to ten people. George Lazarus Chicago Tribune Mr. Lazarus is a fixture in the Chicago business and media communities, having covered the marketing beat at the Tribune since 1972. He began his career with The Associated Press in Chicago in 1957, and has been focused on marketing since joining the Chicago Daily News in 1961. Samual C. Lesch The Wall Street Journal As managing editor of the Dow Jones News Service, he expanded the broadtape. He was also the national news editor for the Wall Street Journal. Doron P. Levin Detroit Free Press/The Wall Street Journal/The New York Times This Detroit Free Press business columnist broke the story of General Motors buying Ross Perot off its board for The Wall Street Journal, which he left to write the 1989 book on the GM-Perot tiff, called Irreconcilable Differences: General Motors vs. Ross Perot. In 1995, he wrote a second book called Behind the Wheel at Chrysler: The Iacocca Legacy. Irving R. Levine NBC News Irving R. Levine was NBC's chief economics correspondent, and spent 45 years at the network, distinguished by his bow ties and low-key broadcast style. Beginning his career in the 1940s at the Providence R.I., Journal, he was an officer in the U.S. Army during WWII, then the Vienna bureau chief for the old International News Service before joining NBC in 1950. In 1971, he became the first network correspondent to cover economics fulltime. He was the first to receive the Martin R. Gainsborough Award for Economic Reporting. Michael Lewis The New Republic/author The former Salomon Brothers bond salesman penned the successful Liar’s Poker, as well as The Money Culture, a collection of his essays that have appeared in such publications as Manhattan, Inc., M Inc., New Republic and The New York Times. He has also written for Worth. Joseph Livingston Business Week/Philadephia Record Joseph Livingston was a longtime business journalist who began at Business Week in 1935. After World War II, he started writing an economics column for the Washington Post then went on to the Philadelphia Record, Philadelphia Bulletin and Philadelphia Inquirer. He won the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting while at the Bulletin for his reports on the growth of economic independence among Russia's Eastern European satellites and his analysis of their desire for a resumption of trade with the West. He died in 1989. Parker Lloyd-Smith Time He not only covered business for the weekly, he helped plan the launch of Fortune magazine. Gerald M. Loeb author The E.F. Hutton vice chairman established the Gerald Loeb Awards program to honor writers who make significant contributions to the understanding of business, finance and the economy. He believed such recognition would encourage excellent writing, which would in turn serve to protect the private investor and the general public. His 1935 book, The Battle for Investment Survival, continues to be a practical day-by-day guide. Marshall Loeb Fortune/Money Mr. Loeb is one of business journalism's most highly respected editors and writers. During his tenure as managing editor at Money and then Fortune, both magazines flourished with Money at the time becoming the country's fastest growing magazine. His full career as a business journalist has garnered him every major award in U.S. business journalism including a Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996 and the Society of Business Editors and Writers' Distinguished Achievement Award in 1998. He began his career as a foreign correspondent for United Press International and then went to Time magazine where he served in various posts including the political and economics editor. He is the author of 15 books and is currently a columnist for CBS MarketWatch.com and Quicken.com. He recently stepped aside as editor of the Columbia Journalism Review. Carol J. Loomis Fortune Ms. Loomis, who rose through the ranks at Fortune and has been a member of the magazine's board of editors since 1968, is noted for her combined talents of hard-hitting reporting and creative writing. Her signature piece has come to be the very deep, 6,000 to 8,000 words, examination of how companies are run. Her respect among business executives has given her unique access to the corridors of power. She is a beacon to younger writers and editors, many of who have acquired the art of business writing by following her lead. She began her career at the magazine in 1954 as a research associate, which was about the highest rank a woman could expect at the magazine back then. She didn't write her first article for Fortune until around 1965. Her colleagues regard her as scrupulously fair and her current editor, John Huey, labels her "the conscience of the magazine." Ms. Loomis is a Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award winner and 1989 Elliott V. Bell award winner. Henry R. Luce Time Best known as the founder of Time, the legendary publisher also gave birth to Fortune magazine in 1930. During many of Time magazine's early years, business titans adorned its cover. The decision to launch Fortune, coming so soon after the Crash of 1929, was a courageous one. While many investment magazines already existed, Fortune sought to cover the world of business and industry, not just Wall Street. Dwight MacDonald Fortune Mr. Macdonald, a former writer with Fortune, was one of most prolific on staff in the magazine's early history. He wrote a 30,000-word piece on United States Steel Corporation with exhaustive research -- 200 interviews for one part of the series on the company's labor relations. Macdonald resigned from the magazine after the fourth part of the series was replaced with a milder version. Archibald MacLeish Fortune One of this country's great poets, Mr. MacLeish also wrote outstanding financial journalism and was part of a group that helped shape Fortune into a literary and philosophical publication during the 1930s. Among his best works was a brilliant dissection of the demise of the empire of Ivar Krueger, the Swedish businessman who controlled much of the world's match production. Alfred L. Malabre, Jr The Wall Street Journal/Author From 1964 until his retirement in 1994 as economic news editor, Mr. Malabre wrote the Journal's Monday Outlook column. He is the author of six books including Understanding the Economy: For People Who Can’t Stand Economics, published in 1976; America’s Dilemma: Jobs vs. Prices, published in 1978; Investing for Profit in the Eighties, published in 1982; and Beyond our Means, published in 1987. Michael J. Mandel Business Week Mr. Mandel is the godfather of an economic school of thought, dubbed the New Economy. As economics editor at Business Week, he and the magazine have been in the forefront in contending that the nation is in the midst of a technology-driven productivity revolution that is allowing for faster economic growth without inflation. Few journalists or economists get the chance to be viewed as the preeminent thinker on a subject. Mr. Mandel, who joined the magazine from academia in 1989, has written numerous cover stories, commentaries and editorials on the topic of the New Economy. In 1999, the magazine was a finalist for a National Magazine Award for exploration of a single topic, the 21st Century Economy. It was Mr. Mandel who led a team of more than 30 reporters and editors in compiling the special double issue. Wesley F. Mann Investor’s Business Daily Serving as editor of Investor’s Business Daily since early 1989, he has guided the magazine through a period of enormous growth in circulation. Gene G. Marcial Business Week Mr. Marcial, who is the author of the magazine's Inside Wall Street column, has written about stocks and Wall Street for a quarter century, first at The Wall Street Journal and since 1981 at Business Week. His columns regularly move the stocks he discusses. Martin Mayer Author, The Bankers An astute financial journalist and prolific freelance writer, he has written articles for virtually every major business publication, not to mention 20-plus non-fiction books. Mr. Mayer began his career in the late 1940s with the New York Journal of Commerce and then served as assistant editor for Labor and Nation and later as associated editor of Esquire. More recently he was a columnist for American Banker from 1987 to 1989. Among his numerous book credits are The Bankers, 1975; The Greatest Ever Bank Robbery, 1990; and Nightmare on Wall Street, 1993. James McGraw McGraw-Hill McGraw and his scions created and grew one of the preeminent business information publishing empires of the century that is now home to Business Week, Standard & Poors, and DRI economic research. James W. Michaels Forbes Mr. Michaels spent 37 years as editor of Forbes Magazine and edited more than 1,000 editions of Forbes, one of the longest tenures of any major magazine editor in history. He has legions of loyal fans among the nation's top business writers, many of whom honed their craft under his direction. Mr. Michaels was known for his no-nonsense reporting and writing. In 1994, he received the Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award. He was also a Loeb winner in 1972 and under his direction Forbes won at least five other Loebs. In 1999, he became group vice president of editorial at Forbes Inc. David Molpus National Public Radio An award-winning journalist, Mr. Molpus covers workplace issues for National Public Radio's business desk. His investigations have included such workplace topics as work-family conflicts, flextime, job-sharing, telecommuting, diversity in the workplace and human resource issues. Edward S. Montgomery San Francisco Examiner Mr. Montgomery is the San Francisco Examiner reporter who won the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for a series of articles on tax frauds which culminated in an expose within the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Walter Mossberg The Wall Street Journal Mr. Mossberg, who has been with The Wall Street Journal since 1970, created the Personal Technology column in October, 1991. The column is one of the most influential features on the subject in the country and garnered its author a 1999 Gerald Loeb award for commentary. Before beginning the column, Mr. Mossberg served in various Washington Bureau positions including labor reporter, energy and environment reporter, chief Pentagon correspondent, deputy bureau chief, international economics reporter and national security reporter. Thomas E. Mullaney The New York Times Mr. Mullaney served as business and financial editor from 1963 until stepping down in 1976. He also authored the column, "The Economic Scene," which he began in 1963 and increased to thrice weekly after giving up his editor duties. William Neikirk Chicago Tribune Mr. Neikirk, considered an astute financial commentator by his fellow journalists, began his career with the Chicago Tribune in 1974 and served as the paper's economics correspondent, Sunday columnist and financial editor. The author of two books, The Work Revolution and Volcker, Portrait of the Money Man, Mr. Neikirk has won numerous journalism awards including a Loeb, two John Hancock awards, two University of Missouri business writing awards and the champion Media Award. Harry Nelson Barron’s For more than 50 years from the weekly's inaugural issue until he retired in July 1974, Mr. Nelson wrote Barron's Trader column. He was one of Clarence Barron's favorites and managed to call both the top and bottom of the Dow's 50 percent selloff in 1937-38. Michael Nelson Reuters As general manager of Reuters from 1976 to 1989, he was one of the principal architects in the massive developments of the wire service, fueled by its expansion in financial news. Robert E. Nichols Los Angeles Times From 1961 to 1968 he was the paper's financial editor. He also served as president of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. Joseph Nocera Fortune/Author Mr. Nocera is a master of the craft of business writing, bringing a literary style to his articles. This editor-at-large for Fortune is considered to have penned some of the best magazine pieces on business in his generation. Mr. Nocera is a multiple Gerald Loeb and John Hancock award-winner Before Fortune, Mr. Nocera penned the Profit Motive column for GQ and Esquire. As a freelance writer, he has contributed to such publications as The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The New York Times and Washington Monthly. He also held the position of senior editor with Texas Monthly. He is the author of the acclaimed book, A Piece of the Action; How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class. In 1998, he began writing a regular column for Money magazine. Floyd H. Norris The New York Times This highly respected columnist authored Market Watch for 10 years before moving over to The New York Times' editorial page in 1998. His column returned to the Business Day section in 1999. He is a former columnist for Barron's.. Alexander Dana Noyes The New York Times Ten months before the 1929 crash, the financial editor warned about the "reckless" speculation in the stock market. Known for his aggressive reporting, Mr. Noyes began his journalistic career in the 1880s. Linda O’Bryon Nightly Business Report Ms. O'Bryon is executive editor of television's No. 1 daily business news program, which she created initially as a 15-minute business news summary for public television station WPBT in 1979. She also serves as general manager of NBR Enterprises, the WPBT division that produces the Nightly Business Report. William J. O’Neil Investor’s Business Daily His publication, which launched in 1984, emphasized financial data in a competitive challenge to The Wall Street Journal. Despite many early predictions that it was destine to fail, the paper continues to grow in circulation. Jack Patterson Business Week Mr. Patterson spent 32 years at Business Week where he served as senior writer and editorial page editor. Since retiring in 1987, he has been an occasional contributor to the magazine and other publications. Norman Pearlstine The Wall Street Journal/Time Warner Inc. Mr. Pearlstine spent nine years as managing editor and then executive editor of The Wall Street Journal. During that time, he transformed the paper from one section to two, adding numerous features and areas of coverage aimed at attracting more women readers and younger readers. Many of the paper's best-known writers, such as James B. Stewart, were recruited to the paper by Mr. Pearlstine. While at Dow Jones, Mr. Pearlstine conceived and helped launch SmartMoney, one of the most successful new business magazine launches in recent memory. Since joining Time Inc. as its editor in chief, he has revamped Fortune and Money, and purchased Mutual Funds magazine. Among his capacities at Dow Jones, he was managing editor of the Asian Wall Street Journal and editor and publisher of The Wall Street Journal/Europe. From 1978 to 1980, he served as executive editor of Forbes magazine. Tom Peters Author His books, starting with In Search of Excellence, helped reinvigorate the coverage of business management in the United States. Gordon W. Platt, Jr. Journal of Commerce While with the Money Manager, Mr. Platt wrote an article exposing severe problems of New York City's pension system resulting in an investigation and eventual overhaul of the system. After eight years with the Money Manager, where he wrote a daily money market column for Munifacts News Wire Service, Mr. Platt in 1980 joined the Journal of Commerce where he serves as trade finance editor. Sylvia F. Porter The New York Post/Author A true trailblazer, Sylvia F. Porter not only led the way for women personal finance writers, but personal finance writers in general. She began writing a column, "S.F. Porter Says" in the mid 1930s for The New York Post. Her personal finance column, "Your Money," which was syndicated by The Los Angeles Times, reached 40 million readers and appeared in 450 newspapers worldwide in its heyday. She offered advice in a second-person voice. On November 28, 1960, Time magazine devoted its cover to a profile of Ms. Porter. In 1978, she moved her home base to the New York Daily News, where it remained. In 1982, she founded her own magazine, Sylvia Porter's Personal Finance magazine. It folded in 1989. She wrote more than 30 books including Sylvia Porter's Money Book, which sold more than 1 million copies. She died in June 1991 at the age of 77. Sally Powell Business Week As senior editor at Business Week, Ms. Powell supervised four sections of the weekly: Labor, Social Issues, Transportation and Media & Entertainment. She was the first woman senior editor at the magazine and created the book review section when was a Business Week department editor in 1970. Loretta W. Prencipe IT Recruiter This former lawyer turned writer is now the editor-in-chief of IT Recruiter. Under her leadership, the magazine has broken stories on age discrimination in the IT industry and unique recruiting techniques in the tight labor market. John A. Prestbo The Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones Indexes/Author As editor of Dow Jones Indexes, he is responsible for the development of new indexes for Dow Jones & Company and was keenly involved with the launch of the Dow Jones World Stock Index. He is the co-author with the Journal’s Doug Sease of Barron’s Guide To Making Investment Decisions, and The Wall Street Journal Book of International Investing. Jane Bryant Quinn Newsweek Syndicated columnist Ms. Quinn’s extensive business journalism career includes television, magazines and books. Her column has appeared Newsweek for more than 21 years. Charles C. Randolph Business Week He served as Business Week's publisher for 10 years before being promoted to group vice-president of McGraw-Hill. While he was publisher, the magazine launched its industrial edition and international advertising edition and increased the number of regional editions. Richard Read The Oregonian Mr. Read is the business reporter for The Oregonian in Portland who won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism for a piece describing the domestic impact of the Asian economic crisis by profiling the local industry that exports frozen french fries. Clare Reckert New York Times The first woman to cover business for The Times, Ms. Reckert was initially denied a byline because of her gender. Later she wrote under C.M. Reckert and finally wrote under "Clare," the masculine of her name. Hal Ritter USA Today Mr. Ritter has been associated with USA Today's Money section since the newspaper's launch in 1982. He moved from deputy managing editor to acting managing editor and then managing editor. Hobart Rowen The Washington Post Mr. Rowen wrote about the economic policies of presidents from Roosevelt to Clinton and expanded the scope of newspaper business pages from local news to the world economy. For 20 years he authored the Washington Post column, "Economic Impact." Prior to the Washington Post, he worked for Newsweek where he began his syndicated column and served as Washington correspondent and Business Trends editor. Vermont Royster The Wall Street Journal He was the paper's influential editor from 1958 to 1971 and won two Pulitzer Prizes for his editorial writing and commentary. Mr. Royster joined The Wall Street Journal in 1936 as a reporter. He authored the "Thinking Things Over" column. He also authored the books: Journey through the Soviet Union, 1962; A Pride of Prejudices, 1967; and My Own, My Country's Time: A Journalist's Journey, 1983. Louis Rukeyser Wall $treet Week With Louis Rukeyser His 30-year tenure as host of Wall $treet Week is almost unheard of in television. Before his current post, he wrote a nationally syndicated column on economics and was with ABC News. He also serves as editor-in-chief of the monthly newsletters Louis Rukeyser’s Mutual Funds and Louis Rukeyser’s Wall Street. His book credits include How to Make Money in Wall Street. Merryle S. Rukeyser Hearst newspapers Father of Louis and William, this pioneer financial journalist's career spanned more than 30 years. From 1927 until 1957 he penned financial columns for Hearst and International News Service. He authored nine books on financial matters, and also began a syndicated column in 1958 known as "Everybody's Money." He died in 1988 at the age of 91. William Rukeyser Money Mr. Rukeyser helped found Money magazine and served as its first managing editor from 1972 until 1980. In 1980, he took the editorial helm of Fortune magazine, which he ran until 1986 when he was named Time Inc.'s director of International Business Development. In all, he spent 21 years at Time Inc. He also worked for The Wall Street Journal for five years and has been a guest and commentator on television. Richard E. Rustin The Wall Street Journal He spent 25 years with the paper including stints covering the securities industry and as a senior markets writer. He also served a five-year stint as a New York news editor and was responsible for the paper's coverage of investment banking, mergers and acquisitions, banking, insurance, accounting and real estate. During that time, he supervised the award-winning coverage of reporters James. B. Stewart and Daniel Hertzberg. Sidney Rutberg Fairchild Publications Sidney Rutberg, with Fairchild Publications, was president of the New York Financial Writers Association in 1975. Robert J. Samuelson Newsweek/Washington Post This Newsweek contributing editor and Washington Post columnist is one of the country's widest read and most written about journalists. He's won three Loeb awards in the column-writing category. James “Jim” R. Schachter New York Times/Los Angeles Times He took over as New York Times Sunday business editor in 1997 and has overseen a redesign of the section. While at the Los Angeles Times he was on a team of reporters that won the John Hancock Award in 1988 for a series on “Working for the Japanese” and also served as editor for a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He wrote Understanding the Riots. Jeffrey L. Seglin Inc./The New York Times The former executive editor and now editor-at-large at Inc. magazine writes In the Black and White and also writes "The Right Thing," a monthly business ethics column for The New York Times. His 10-year affiliation with Inc. has kept the magazine on track as a preeminent small-business publication. Daniel Seligman Fortune A long-time editor of Fortune's Keeping Up column, he spent 47 years at the magazine. Late in his career Mr. Seligman switched affiliations to Forbes. Eileen Shanahan The New York Times/St. Petersburg Times/ New America News Service This 1975 Newspaper Woman of the Year award winner's career spans more than 50 years. She has worked for Cronkite Radio News Bureau, as a reporter for The New York Time's Washington bureau, as the Washington bureau chief for the St. Petersburg Times, and she co-founded and was executive editor of Governing magazine. Stephen B. Shepard Business Week For 15 years, Mr. Shepard has set the direction of Business Week as its editor in chief. Under his leadership, the magazine has moved aggressively to increase its coverage of global topics and expand upon its early foothold in covering the impact of technology on its readers' universe. In addition to a dynamic web edition of the magazine, Business Week has developed customized weekly European and Asian editions and is eyeing a similar expansion in Latin America. Mr. Shepard began his career in 1963 as an editorial trainee at The McGraw-Hill Companies and moved to Business Week in 1965. For five years he served as an adjunct professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and founded and served as director of the school's prestigious Walter Bagehot Fellowship in Economic and Business Journalism. His career also includes five years at Newsweek where he worked as senior editor for national affairs. He has won numerous honors including being inducted into the American Society of Magazine Editors Hall of Fame. He was 1999's Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. Sam Shulsky New York Journal-American and King Features Syndicate Beginning in 1955 and continuing for 23 years, he wrote a popular question and answer column on business that was syndicated by King Features. Prior to that he was assistant financial editor of The New York Journal and later of The New York Journal-American. In 1976, he was presented with the Elliott V. Bell Award for lifetime achievement. He died in 1982. Leonard Silk The New York Times A rarity in financial journalism, Mr. Silk held a doctorate in economics and through his writing demonstrated how complex economic issues could be described in simple prose that was understandable to the general reader. He wrote the Times' Economics Scene column for 23 straight years, until his retirement in 1992 at the age of 74. In the process he inspired a generation of economic reporters and columnists. Before joining the Times, Mr. Silk was a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and before that was economics editor and editorial board chairman at Business Week. He has won numerous journalism awards, including five Gerald Loeb Awards. He wrote more than a dozen books including Economics in Plain English and Economics in the Real World. Upton Sinclair Author This muckraking author’s 1906 novel The Jungle, which vividly portrayed life and death at a turn-of-the-century American meat-packing factory, led to government regulations of the food industry. Bill Sing Los Angeles Times This paper’s business editor, a founder and past national president of the Asian-American Journalists Association, sparked controversy when he paired with an LAT advertising executive. He is credited with reshaping the paper’s business section by improving it both editorially and financially. Allan Sloan Newsweek Mr. Sloan is the embodiment of the notion that the pen is mightier than the sword. Using crisp analytical ability, a razor-sharp sense of humor and a frank, common sense writing style, Mr. Sloan has delved behind the scenes of some of the past two decades biggest business stories and deals. His doggedness has made him one of the most award-winning business journalists of his generation. Prior to Newsweek, he served as a columnist for New York Newsday as well as a senior editor for Forbes and Money. He is the author of Three Plus One Equals Billions, about the Bendix-Martin Marietta takeover battle. Leonard Sloane The New York Times Mr. Sloane spent 32 years as a business and financial reporter for The New York Times. He began his career at The Wall Street Journal. Near the end of his Times career, he specialized in personal finance and had a syndicated radio program, "Personal Finance." C. Norman Stabler New York Herald Tribune C. Norman Stabler was financial editor for the New York Herald Tribune for nearly 30 years before moving to the Bond Buyer and then Money Manager. He died in 1982. James B. Steele Philadelphia Inquirer/Time Along with Donald L. Barlett, 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. Paul E. Steiger The Wall Street Journal Mr. Steiger has served as the managing editor of the Wall Street Journal since 1991. During his tenure thus far, Mr. Steiger has led the Journal to seven Pulitzer Prizes. He also played key roles in the launch of the very successful Interactive Edition of the Journal and in the paper's joint editorial venture with CNBC. Mr. Steiger's most recent project was the successful launch of the Friday "Weekend" edition and of a syndicated Sunday version of the paper. Earlier in his career, Mr. Steiger served as business editor of the Los Angeles Times from 1971-1978. Mr. Steiger personally has won three Gerald Loeb awards and two John Hancock awards for his coverage of economic and business events. Benjamin J. Stein New York Magazine/ Barron’s/The Wall Street Journal/Author He replaced Christopher Byron as New York's The Bottom Line columnist and wrote A License to Steal, about junk-bond ace Michael Milken following several Barron's pieces on the same topic. He also wrote for The Wall Street Journal's editorial page and wrote a column for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner from 1978 to 1987. David Steinberg PR Newswire Mr. Steinberg, who is vice chairman and former chief executive of PR Newswire, advanced the press release wire concept to the point where today it is considered to be a disclosure medium. Mr. Steinberg began his business writing career with the New York Herald Tribune. He received the first Gerald Loeb award in 1958. Brooke Stephens author Ms. Stephens is one of a handful of African-American financial authors. She penned Talking Dollars and Making Sense: A Wealth Building Guide for African Americans. Richard L. Stern Forbes During his 11 years at Forbes, Mr. Stern won acclaim for a number of his investigative pieces including his work helping to expose Robert E. Brennan and a story on Drexel Brunham Lambert. Prior to Forbes he was editor of Securities Week and also editor of the Wall Street Letter, as well as a writer for Institutional Investor magazine and a columnist for the New York Daily News. James B. Stewart The Wall Street Journal Mr. Stewart is the Wall Street Journal reporter who, along with Daniel Hertzberg, won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism for their stories about an investment banker charged with insider trading and the critical day that followed the October 19, 1987 stock market crash. He went on to write Den of Thieves. Leland Stowe New York Herald Tribune Mr. Stowe, while with the New York Herald-Tribune, won a 1930 Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Paris Reparations Commissions and the formation of the Young Plan and the Bank for International Settlements in. He later earned recognition as one of the most renowned correspondents of the 1930s and the 1940s. His career included work for the Chicago Daily News, New York Post, ABC, Reporter Magazine and Reader's Digest. Stan Strachan National Thrift News As editor, he provided some of the most complete coverage of the Savings and Loan crisis. Steve Swartz SmartMoney Mr. Swartz is founding editor, President and CEO of SmartMoney, a magazine that set out to prove that a well-educated and literate audience could be drawn to a financial services magazine. SmartMoney has been an overwhelming success since its launch in 1992. In addition to winning back to back National Magazine Awards, it has pushed the entire personal finance genre to be more engaging in its writing style and story concepts. Prior to SmartMoney, Mr. Swartz worked at the Wall Street Journal as a staff reporter and Page One editor. At 37 years of age, Mr. Swartz is already one of the most influential financial media executives in the country. Jim Tanner The Wall Street Journal Mr. Tanner has been heralded as dean of the oil industry reporters. He covered OPEC for more than two decades -- long before and after it was front-page news in 1973. Ida Tarbell McClure’s Her 19-installment expose for McClure's on Standard Oil brought her global renown, but Ms. Tarbell's writings on business extended beyond the Standard Oil opus. She contributed trailblazing business articles for a number of publications during the 1920s and among the several books she wrote was The Nationalizing of Business. Her Standard Oil piece was chosen by New York University as one of the top 100 works of journalism in the United States in the 20th Century. Alex Taylor III Fortune An auto writer for nearly three decades, Mr. Taylor is highly respected for his coverage of the industry. A dogged worker, When Daimler and Chrysler announced their merger, he had both CEOs on the phone in a matter of hours. He has been with Fortune since 1986 and a member of its Board of Editors since 1992. Before joining Fortune, he covered the auto industry for Time and in the early 1970s was a business reporter for The Detroit Free Press. In 1992, he was named Journalist of the Year by the Washington, DC, Automotive Press Association. Andrew Tobias Worth A finance guru and Worth columnist, Mr. Tobias was one of the first personal finance writers to successfully translate his knowledge to software and make it available to personal computer owners. By 1990, his software products, Managing the Market, The Financial Calculator; Checkwrite Plus; Tax Cut; and Managing Money, had sold more than 250,000 copies. Mr. Tobias has written for many publications, including Time and Playboy. He is also the author of several books including My Vast Fortune, The Only Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need and Money Angels. Edward Tyng The Journal of Commerce He served as the publication's banking reporter and is said to have covered the opening of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in 1914, and continued to cover the Fed up through his death in 1976 at the age of 79. Generations of reporters covering the Fed, the economy and monetary policy came to know Mr. Tyng and follow in his colorful footsteps. He also wrote for the weekly The Money Manager under the name F.E. Gynt. Vartanig G. Vartan The New York Times/The New York Herald Tribune Before joining The New York Times where he penned the Market Place column, Mr. Vartan was considered a savvy journalist for The New York Herald Tribune’s financial section. Ray Vicker The Wall Street Journal/Chicago Journal of Commerce One of The Wall Street Journal's most distinguished foreign correspondents, he served as European news editor before moving to San Francisco where he was senior national correspondent. John Waggoner USA Today For the past 10 years, he has been writing about mutual funds and covering personal finance for USA Today in a manner that has been described as intelligent and witty. He began his journalism career at Donoghue’s Newsletter and later joined Independent Investor as senior editor/lead financial writer. He is also the author of two books: Money Madness: A Survey of Lesser Known Panics and Manias On and Off Wall Street, and The Fast Forward MBA in Investing. George Wanders New York Herald Tribune He covered the bond market for the New York Herald Tribune and eventually went to the Bond Buyer. He died in 1961. Ben Weberman New York Herald Tribune The financial editor for the New York Herald Tribune and a staff member at The American Banker, Mr. Weberman went on to author the Capital Markets column at Forbes for almost two decades. His career spanned nearly 50 years. He died in 1994. Christopher Welles Business Week Mr. Welles is widely respected among today's journalists for his dedication to the craft and his high standards of professionalism and ethics. From 1977 to 1985, he served as director of the Bagehot Fellowship Program at Columbia University and as a professor of journalism. In the process, he helped train many of today's leading business journalists. Moreover, while at Business Week, since 1986, he has been an in-house "teacher" of journalism excellence. Mr. Welles has enjoyed a diverse career in business journalism, serving as business editor of the Saturday Evening Post, a contributing editor to Institutional Investor, a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times and as an editor and writer for Business Week. His awards include the Gerald Loeb, John Hancock, National Magazine Award and the University of Missouri business-writing award. Mr. Welles recently announced his plans to retire at the end of 1999. Kathryn M. Welling Barron’s Ms. Welling served as one of the magazine’s two associate editors and sometimes assisted in reporting for Alan Abelson’s Up & Down Wall Street column. Alena Wels The Journal of Commerce She was considered an authority on international monetary and banking issues. Before becoming the paper's chief editorial writer, she served as banking editor. Her career at The Journal of Commerce began in 1960 and ended with her death in 1985 at the age of 47. She also contributed to Barron's and British publications such as The Economist and The Banker. Bruce Williams Nationally Syndicated Talk Show Host By making his program both utilitarian and entertaining, Mr. Williams helped transform the staid image of business news into a sexy - and very profitable - topic. Mr. Williams's radio show is one of the highest-rated radio call-in programs in the United States. He was recently inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame. Matthew Winkler Bloomberg Business News Editor-in-chief and co-founder of Bloomberg Business News, now Bloomberg News, Mr. Winkler is the editorial force behind Michael Bloomberg's media empire. Mr. Winkler, in less than a decade, recruited, trained and placed more than 600 business journalists in bureaus throughout the world. In the process, he took on media giants Dow Jones and Reuters and made the Bloomberg name synonymous with business in corporate boardrooms throughout the world. Mr. Winkler was one of the original reporters at The Wall Street Journal/Europe, spending five years in London. Before that, he helped start Dow Jones' Capital Markets Report. From 1987 to 1990, Mr. Winkler covered credit markets, corporate finance and the securities industries for the Journal. He is the co-author of Bloomberg by Bloomberg. William Wolman Business Week/Business Times/CNBC As chief economist for Business Week for many years, Mr. Wolman supervises the magazine's coverage of economics and finance. Mr. Wolman also appears regularly on CNBC, where he has been providing commentary since 1989. Mr. Wolman, in fact, was an early pioneer in business news programming, having served from 1983 to 1984 as executive editor of Business Times, a daily television program which aired on the ESPN network. Along with the legendary Leonard Silk in the 1950s and 1960s, Mr. Wolman helped pioneer the coverage of economics as news. Like Mr. Silk, he has a Ph.D. in economics. Mr. Wolman first joined Business Week in 1960 and continues to be an integral part of the magazine's editorial team. He has won numerous awards, including a National Magazine Award, a John Hancock Award and a Champion-Tuck Award. Lewis H. Young Business Week For 15 years he was at the helm of Business Week and expanded the publication's international bureau system. He also is credited with being the first business-magazine editor to give prominent coverage to technology, electronics and computers. During his tenure, Business Week won two National Magazine General Excellence awards. After retiring from Business Week, he went on to serve as editorial director of Electronics News. He died in 1998 at the age of 73. Sheldon Zalaznick Forbes Mr. Zalaznick served as an anchor for Forbes and as managing editor from 1976 until his retirement in 1989. He actually served two stints with the magazine; the first from 1959-1963 when he rose to senior editor, and then when he rejoined in 1976. He also worked for the New York Herald Tribune and Fortune. Karen Zehring Corporate Finance Ms. Zehring founded, published and initially edited Corporate Finance. She has been touted as female journalistic version of Malcolm Forbes. William Zimmerman The American Banker/Newsday He served as longtime editor of The American Banker before moving briefly to The New York Times and then joining Newsday, where he worked as assistant business editor before creating the Student Briefing Page, which covers political, economic and cultural issues for high school students. Copyright c 1999 Business News Luminaries All rights reserved www.tjfr.com www.mastercard.com