A regional business editor who went on to run specialist titles before becoming a City analyst has died aged 72.
Tributes have been paid to Rob Golding, who ran the business desk at the Birmingham Post for part of his career.
Rob, pictured, later edited The Engineer and Car magazine in the early 1980s, also serving as a member of The Guild of Motoring Journalists.
He became a full-time automotive analyst in 1984 and worked on Ford’s acquisition of Jaguar five years later for investment bank SG Warburg.
Paying tribute, fellow Guild of Motoring Journalists member Mark Bursa described it as “one of the deals of the decade” and recalled how Rob was “voted the UK’s top auto analyst on a number of occasions”.
Mark said: “Rob had a remarkable career as both a writer and automotive analyst, and excelled at both disciplines.
“He possessed both a deep knowledge of the automotive industry and the rare gift of turning workaday business or technical topics into sharp, entertaining copy.”
He added: “He pulled no punches either – as a young reporter I remember attending an…
