Tadesse, former Reuters correspondent in Ethiopia, dies at 92

Tsegaye Tadesse

Tsegaye Tadesse, a former Reuters correspondent in Ethiopia who had a front row seat to history, has died at 92.

Barry Malone and Tiksa Negeri of Reuters write, “But it was at Reuters news agency, which hired him in 1975 and where he would work for almost 35 years, that Tsegaye believed he did his best work.

“He became so associated with the wire service over the years that many in Ethiopia came to know him simply as ‘Tsegaye Reuters’.

“Funny and charming, he could talk his way into almost anywhere and used that gift to access government buildings, VIP lounges, palaces and anywhere else he could dig up a story.”

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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.