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Greenwald, former biz editor in Minneapolis and biz reporter for Time, dies at 82

John Greenwood

Longtime business journalist John Greenwald died June 28 at the age of 82.

Greenwald is a former senior writer for Time magazine, where he specialized in business and economic news and wrote more than two dozen cover articles.

A bachelor’s and master’s graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and a master’s graduate of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Greenwald served as business editor of The Minneapolis Star before joining Time, and subsequently edited NJBIZ, an award-winning weekly business newspaper in New Jersey.

His wife Martha was the consumer affairs reporter at the Star.

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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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