Bill Choyke, former business editor of The Tennessean in Nashville and the Virginian-Pilot, died last month at the age of 76.
Choyke began his professional career at his hometown newspaper in Waukegan, Ill., after graduating from Ohio University in Athens. He moved to Washington, D.C., in 1975, and provided coverage in the nation’s capital for a number of Texas newspapers, including The Dallas Morning News from 1981 to 1989.
Awarded a Batten Fellowship at The Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia, he received his MBA in 1991.
Choyke joined Gannett Co. in 1993 as marketing director for its newspaper in Iowa City, Iowa, and moved back to the newsroom in 1995, serving primarily in Nashville as an editor, including assistant managing editor for business. He became business editor of The Virginian-Pilot in March 2003.
He also served on the board of what is now known as the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing.
Read his obituary here.
