Xana Antunes, Business Journalist and Top Editor, Dies at 55

She was replaced in 2001 by Col Allan, who had worked closely with Mr. Murdoch’s son Lachlan in the past. Shortly after that, Lachlan Murdoch took over as publisher. At the time, The Post was competing with The Daily News in a circulation battle.

Ms. Antunes went on to work at Crain’s New York Business, CNBC and Fortune magazine.

After moving to Quartz in 2014, she oversaw major pieces on President Trump’s aide Steve Bannon, maternal mortality and a boom in lobster consumption. She also built a team of video journalists that won a Gerald Loeb award for business news.

Ms. Antunes was a generous mentor, colleagues said, urging young reporters, especially women, to pursue ambitious projects or apply for jobs they thought were beyond them.

In a remembrance on Quartz, colleagues recalled the time she sat down with a reporter to discuss troubling life-expectancy data from Appalachia. Before the reporter could finish speaking, Ms. Antunes was looking up flights to West Virginia. “How about you head there on Sunday?” she asked.

Susana Maria Douglas Ramage Antunes was born on May 17, 1964, in Lisbon to Eugenio and Helen (Ramage) Antunes. Her father was a businessman, her mother a social worker.

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