Fetterman, biz journalist for USA Today, Dallas Morning News, dies at 68

Mindy Fetterman

Mindy Fetterman, who was a business reporter and deputy managing editor for the Money section at USA Today, died Thursday at the age of 68.

She was also business editor of the Dallas Morning News from 1998 to 2000.

An obituary reads, “Over the course of a classic journalism career, Mindy moved from the Moline Daily Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune to the Rochester Times Union to the masthead of USA TODAY, where she was the managing editor for content strategy, and a deputy managing editor in news and business. During the height of USA TODAY’s influence, she led coverage of the 9/11 attacks, aviation safety, ‘road warrior’ business travel, and personal finance. Post-journalism, she was an executive vice president at Burson Cohn & Wolfe and a senior director at Palisades Media Group.

“At every step, Mindy made close friends and kept them, from her freshman dorm-mates at the University of Kentucky to a stint as business editor of The Dallas Morning News to fellow dog owners in Old Town Alexandria, Va., where she lived for more than 25 years. If you knew Mindy, you eventually knew all her friends, or at least some good stories about them.”

Read more here.

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.