Talbott, longtime Cleveland biz journalist, dies at 76

Stephen Talbott

Stephen Talbott, who worked on the business news desk of the Cleveland Plain Dealer for 26 years, died Feb. 19 at the age of 76.

Talbott was a business reporter from 1980 to 1988 and deputy business editor from 1988 to 2006.

Before the Plain Dealer, he worked as a reporter at The Amsterdam Recorder and the Schenectady Gazette, both in New York state.

He held a bachelor’s degree from SUNY-Albany and master’s degree from Columbia University’s business journalism program.

After retiring from the Plain Dealer, Talbott taught journalism at Cleveland State University.

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.