The writer is a Los Angeles-based freelancer and former Detroit News business reporter. This column first appeared in his blog, Starkman Approved.
Veteran journalist Michael Schroeder, who worked at The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and The Detroit News, was killed Sunday in a car accident in Florida. He was 72, and in my experience, he was one of the most decent people in journalism.
I was a major beneficiary of that decency…