Ray Shaw, the chairman of American City Business Journals, the parent company of Triangle Business Journal, died Sunday morning due to complications from a insect sting. He was 75 years old.

His sons, Whitney and Kirk Shaw, also executives with Charlotte-based ACBJ, announced their father’s passing in an e-mail to employees Sunday afternoon.

Ray Shaw was one of the biggest names in business journalism. An Oklahoma native, he attended but did not graduate from the University of Oklahoma. He then embarked on a journalism career with a job with the Associated Press in Oklahoma City. AP subsequently moved Shaw to stints in Louisville, Ky., and New York

Shaw started in the news business when he was in high school as a reporter for his hometown newspaper in El Reno, Oklahoma.

In 1960, he began what would be a 29-year career at Dow Jones & Co., starting as a reporter at The Wall Street Journal and rising up the ranks into editorial positions at The Journal and other Dow Jones publications. He then moved over to the business side of the company, eventually climbing the ladder all the way to the position of president and chief operating officer.

Ray Shaw is survived by his wife, Kay (also from Oklahoma), sons Whitney and Kirk and their spouses, his daughter, Beth and her husband, and seven grandchildren. Funeral arrangements are pending.

source 07-20-2009: http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2009/07/13/daily64.html

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