About Xana Antunes
Lived 1964 – 2020 (aged 55). Xana Antunes was a British journalist.
Early life and education Antunes was born in Lisbon, Portugal, the daughter of Eugenio Antunes and Helen Ramage Antunes. She earned a bachelor's degree from Trinity & All Saints College (now Leeds Trinity University) in 1985.
Career 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. and The Evening Standard. She moved to New York from the United Kingdom in 1993 to work as a foreign correspondent. before stepping down and being replaced by Col Allan in April 2001.
In 2003, Antunes became an executive editor of Fortune magazine. She later led the business news website Quartz. She and her second husband Scott Schell married in 2011, and had one daughter, Elisabeth.
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Who was Xana Antunes?
British business journalist
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Xana Antunes was born on 17 May 1964.
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Xana Antunes died on 27 January 2020 in New York City.
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Xana Antunes was a journalist.
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Xana Antunes was British.
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