Edward R. Cony (March 15, 1923 – January 9, 2000) was an American journalist and newspaper executive who spent almost his entire career working for The Wall Street Journal or its parent company, Dow Jones.
from Reed College,[1] where he majored in political science and wrote a thesis on the Fair Employment Practice Commission under Prof. Maure Goldschmidt.
[3] He had spent all but six months of his 35-year career as a journalist working for the Wall Street Journal or for its parent company, Dow Jones.
[1] According to his New York Times obituary, "Cony announced that he had Alzheimer's in March 1988, a few weeks before he was to have become president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
He "was deeply involved in defending First Amendment freedom of press and was a frequent speaker (sometimes at Reed) on the topic of rights and responsibilities of the media.
[3] The prize board praised his analysis of a timber transaction between Georgia-Pacific Corporation and one of its directors, who was also the president of a major insurance company, saying that it had drawn attention to the issue of business ethics.
[2] He also won the Gerald Loeb Award in 1961, sharing it with several other Wall Street Journal reporters who had collaborated on a series entitled "New Millionaires.
"[5] "Ed was extraordinarily intelligent, possessed of a wonderful wit, an easy sense of humor, and absolute integrity," wrote Barron's columnist Alan Abelson after Cony's death.