Categories: OLD Media Moves

A competing reporter lauds her retiring rival

Andrea Ahles, who covers airlines for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, lauds rival airline reporter Terry Maxon of the Dallas Morning News, who retired this weekend.

Ahles writes, “For the past six years, I’ve sat next to Terry at press conferences about airline bankruptcies, new livery announcements and pilot contract vote results and stood beside him on the tarmac of Dallas/Fort Worth Airport watching A380s, Dreamliners and foreign flag carriers arrive.

“While we work for rival papers, Terry was always friendly and when I was first starting out on the beat, he was helpful in pointing out the important people that I hadn’t met yet. His trademark wit and dry commentary always made covering airline events a little more fun.

“It will be a little strange for the rest of us airline reporters next week when we attend American’s ribbon cutting for their new Integrated Operations Center or at the Love Field/Delta/Southwest court hearing at the end of the month because Terry won’t be there.

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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.

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