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Fuller, former Pacific Business News publisher, has died

Larry Fuller

Larry Fuller, who was publisher of Pacific Business News — an American City Business Journals publication — for 11 years before retiring in 2009, died Thursday at his home in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, at the age of 83.

An obituary states, “For a brief period, from 1984 to 1986, he worked on the corporate staff of Gannett, first in charge of Gannett New Media, Gannett’s foray into online journalism, and then as director of corporate communications for Gannett and USA TODAY.

“He said he missed being a part of a community newspaper and in 1986, the family returned to Sioux Falls where he was publisher and later added duties as a regional vice president with oversight for several newspapers first in the West and then in the Midwest. He was named Publisher of the Year for Gannett in 1989.

“He and Suzanne made a big change in 1993 when Fuller became publisher of the Honolulu Advertiser and president of the Hawaii Newspaper Agency. His final newspaper stop was as publisher of the Pacific Business News in Honolulu and its transition from a weekly newspaper to a multimedia operation and business-event producer. He retired after more than 50 years in journalism.”

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.

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