Arkanas business journalist dies at 55

Patricia Ann May, the former editor of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal, died last week at the age of 55.

Jan Cottingham of Arkanas Business writes, “She was a 1976 graduate of Harrison High School and a 1980 graduate of the University of Arkansas with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. In 1988 she earned a master’s degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

“May was a reporter for the Springdale News and the Northwest Arkansas Times in the 1980s. While she pursued her graduate studies at Northwestern, she was a reporter for the American Banker in Chicago and Washington.

“On returning to Arkansas, she was a business reporter for the Arkansas Gazette in Little Rock and Fayetteville and the Morning News in Springdale. She was also executive editor of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal. During her years working as a market analyst she continued freelance writing for the Arkansas Catholic.”

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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.