Marshall Loeb

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Marshall Loeb died at age 88 on Dec. 9, 2017 after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease.

Shortly after graduation from the University of Missouri School of Journalism, he served as a correspondent for United Press in Frankfurt, Germany.

After a year as a city reporter for The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, he joined Time magazine in 1956 as a writer, rising over the years to Business Editor and Nation Editor. He became Managing Editor of Money (1980-84), Managing Editor of Fortune (1986-94) and Editor of the Columbia Journalism Review (1996-99).

Loeb worked as senior correspondent and a member of the Advisory Board of CBS MarketWatch.com, a leading financial and business news service on the net. He was also a daily commentator on CBS Radio Network. He authored 13 books, most recently Marshall Loeb’s Lifetime Financial Strategies (Little Brown & Co., 1996). He won every major award in economic and financial journalism. He was a board member of several charities and public service organizations, including the Knight-Bagehot awards program at Columbia Journalism School.

He celebrated 60 years in the news business in 2009.