Meyers, longtime Star Tribune economics reporter, dies at 75

Mike Meyers

Mike Meyers, who was an economics reporter and columnist at the Minneapolis Star Tribune for more than two decades, has died at the age of 75.

Randy Furst of the Star Tribune, “Meyers had a talent for distilling complicated economic issues, often with humorous but riveting opening paragraphs. ‘He had an unusual combination of talents both as a very penetrating analyst of issues with a kind of fun-loving zest for debate and rhetoric,’ said Doug Tice, retired columnist, commentary editor and member of the editorial board at the Star Tribune. Meyers contributed to the newspaper’s Op-Ed pages after he retired as a reporter.

“Meyers died on Sept. 29 at a rehabilitation center in Minneapolis. He was recovering from a serious fall in May in which he broke his ankle, said his brother, William Meyers of St. Louis. No funeral is planned, but friends will gather privately to share memories.

“Meyers worked at the Star Tribune from 1984 to 2009, first as an economics reporter in Minneapolis, then as the newspaper’s New York correspondent and later as national economics correspondent. He won numerous awards for work that included in-depth reports on agricultural subsidies and financial problems at Northwest Airlines, which merged with Delta Air Lines in 2010.”

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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.