Canadian biz journalist Vandaelle has died

Ian Vandaelle

Ian Vandaelle, a business journalist in Canada, has died at the age of 33.

His most recent position was a reporter and editor at the Financial Post. He had been a producer at BNN Bloomberg for more than a decade.

Previously, he interned at Report on Business, where he copy edited stories and videos to the Report on Business website.

Vandaelle interned at the National Post and held the post of business and technology editor at The Eyeopener, a weekly student newspaper of Toronto Metropolitan University.

Vandaelle graduated from Ryerson University. His partner was Stephanie Hughes, an equities reporter for Bloomberg News in Toronto.

“We will carry on his memory as the kindest, most loving person we could know,” wrote Hughes on Twitter. “He also leaves behind the best friends anyone could ever ask for.”

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.