Edward Cony

Mr. Cony's career spanned 35 years and all but six months of it he spent at The Wall Street Journal or some part of its parent company, Dow Jones.

While serving as news editor for the paper, he received the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for articles exploring the issue of business ethics in the timber industry. In 1965, he was named managing editor of the paper, a post he held for about five years before being named executive editor of Dow Jones publications and news services.

He served as president of the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund from 1981 through his retirement in 1988, and was an associate editor at the paper for part of that time.

Upon his retirement, the Associated Press Managing Editors Association's newsletter called him "the boss you would like to have." He had served as president of that organization and was also elected president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He died Jan. 9, 2000, at the age of 76 of complications from pneumonia. He also was suffering from Alzheimer's disease.