People Remembered: Jerry Flint

Jerry Flint

Jerry Flint, 79, who covered the automotive industry for more than half a century, died of a stroke August 7 in Hudson, New York. He was the husband of Kate McLeod, a board member of the OPC Foundation and Publisher of the OPC magazine Dateline.

Flint joined The Wall Street Journal in 1956 as a staff writer in its Chicago bureau, moving to Detroit a year later. After 11 years with the WSJ, he became Detroit bureau chief for The New York Times.

He moved to New York in 1973 as The Times chief labor reporter and assistant to the national and financial editors. He joined Forbes in 1979 as its Washington bureau chief and retuned to New York four years later as the magazine’s assistant managing editor and senior writer.

Although officially retired from Forbes in 1996, he continued writing columns including “Backseat Driver” until his death. Flint won the 2003 Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. Known as Jerry, Yehudi Meyer Flint was an OPC member from 1997 to 2002.

The Flint family requests that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the OPC Foundation, 40 West 45th Street, New York, NY 10036 or for more information, email: foundation@opcofamerica.org.

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