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Boroson, longtime financial journalist, dies at 88

Warren Boroson

Warren Boroson, a business journalist who wrote books about investing, died March 12 at the age of 88.

According to an obituary, he worked at The Record of Hackensack, NJ, the Daily Record of Morris County, where he wrote a syndicated financial column, and Newjerseynewsroom.com, where he wrote a financial column three times a week. He also wrote for magazines such as Medical Economics, NEXT, Money, and Sylvia Porter’s Personal Finance Magazine.

He wrote freelance articles for The New York Times Magazine, Consumer Reports, Woman’s Day, TV Guide, and Family Circle.

Boroson wrote over 20 books, including “How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett,” “Keys to Investing in Mutual Funds” and “How to Buy a House for Nothing (or Little) Down.”

He is also the author of “The Reverse Mortgage Advantage: The Tax-Free, House Rich Way to Retire Wealthy!”

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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