From Ida Tarbell and Barney Kilgore to more recent giants of our profession, here are the lives of some of our greatest business journalists. This introductory set of stories was developed largely by journalism students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, under the direction of Professor Chris Roush. Please send us your ideas for other profiles you’d like to see. Is there someone whose life you’d like to write about and share here? Let us know, at .