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Wildstrom, well-known tech journalist, dies

November 25, 2015

Posted by Chris Roush

Steve WildstromSteve Wildstrom, a long-time BusinessWeek columnist and one of the first journalists to focus primarily on technology, died on Nov. 24 of brain cancer.

John Biggs of TechCrunch writes, “Wildstrom wrote the Technology & You for Business Week from 1994 to 2009. He was a larger-than-life figure in the world of journalism and, more specifically, tech journalism.

“His wife confirmed his death via Facebook.

“Born in Detroit, Wildstrom went to the University of Michigan and began writing for BusinessWeek in 1972 where he served as news editor in BusinessWeek’s Washington bureau. He was also active in the Children’s Chorus of Washington.

“‘Steve Wildstrom at Business Week was hands-down the best person in the 1990s-2000s to explain to a broad nationwide audience what tech meant to them in their personal and business lives,’ wrote Bill Howard, an editor at PC Magazine.”

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