Xana Antunes

Antunes worked at the Financial Times in the mid 1980s, writing for their Money Management and sister magazines. She also did some on-air television reporting.^[8] She had reporting stints at The Independent^[10] and The Evening Standard.^[11] She moved to New York from the United Kingdom in 1993 to work as a foreign correspondent.^[6] She joined the New York Post as a deputy business editor in 1995, working under David Yelland.^[12][2] She was appointed editor of the paper in October 1999,^[8][13] before stepping down and being replaced by Col Allan in April 2001.^[12] Her resignation was apparently under pressure from Rupert Murdoch and his son, Lachlan Murdoch.^[7][14][15]

In 2003, Antunes became an executive editor of Fortune magazine.^[16] She later led the business news website Quartz.^[3]

Antunes married fellow journalist Frank Kane in 1988.^[17] She and her second husband Scott Schell married in 2011, and had one daughter, Elisabeth.^[3] She was awarded a lifetime achievement award by the Newswomen's Club of New York.^[3] Antunes died from pancreatic cancer in early 2020, at the age of 55, in New York City.^[1]