Oslund, former Star Tribune assistant biz editor, dies at 70

John Oslund

John Oslund, longtime business journalist at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, died at the age of 70 from Alzheimer’s disease.

Patrick Kennedy of the Star Tribune writes, “Oslund, who retired in 2014, attended the University of Minnesota but left in 1977 a few credits shy of his undergraduate degree to become a copy boy at the Minneapolis Star. Years later, he completed those credits and in 1996 earned a master’s degree in business journalism as a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University.

“Oslund was a business reporter and assistant business editor at a time when business and personal finance news was gaining more importance to newspapers and readers.

“He was a constant in the department, as top editors and reporters came in and out.”

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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.