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Felcyn, longtime BusinessWeek editor, has died

Keith Felcyn

Keith Felcyn, a longtime editor at BusinessWeek magazine, died on Dec. 10 in Greenwich, Connecticut, where he lived since 1975.

Felcyn worked as a senior editor and chief of correspondents for BusinessWeek magazine for 41 years. He also was manager of the Milwaukee bureau and the Chicago bureau. While in Chicago, he was vice president of the Chicago Headline Club.

Covering a protest during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Felcyn and a photographer were teargassed by police.

He retired from the magazine in 1997.

Felcyn is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and recipient of a Professional Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University.

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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