Middleton, longtime biz journalist, dies at 77

Timothy Middleton

Timothy Middleton, a longtime business journalist, died in New Jersey last week at the age of 77.

An obituary said the cause was heart disease.

Middleton was a columnist for MSN Money and a contributor to CNBC television. He also did weekend business reports for WCBS Radio in New York. He was the author of 2006’s “The Bond King: Investment Secrets from PIMCO’s Bill Gross.”

Middleton was formerly a mutual funds columnist for the New York Times, and a contributor to such periodicals as Money magazine, Worth, and Bloomberg Personal.

A financial journalist for twenty-five years, he has been an editor of Dow Jones News Service and Crain’s New York Business, a writer for the “Abreast of the Market” column for the Wall Street Journal Europe, and a speechwriter for the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Middleton was a Davenport Fellow in Reporting on Business and the Economy at the University of Missouri.

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.