Doug LeDuc, a former reporter for the Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly, died May 11.
Lisa Esquivel Long of the Business Weekly writes, “LeDuc started at Business Weekly in 2006, just a year after the business journal started. Before that he covered business news at The News-Sentinel 1989-2006. He was first hired as a business journalist by the Nashville Business Journal, where he worked 1986-1989.
“‘My earliest career aspirations were inspired by A.A. Milne,’ he said. ‘Eventually my tastes evolved from Winnie-the-Pooh fan fiction to journalism, so I got a bachelor’s degree in that at Brigham Young University and a master’s degree at Northwestern University.
“‘I learned business journalism at Northwestern from a former Chicago Sun Times business editor.'”
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