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Boston radio station biz editor retires after 36 years

WBZ NewsRadio 1030 afternoon co-anchor and business editor Anthony Silva announced his retirement Monday, after almost 36 years of service at the Boston station.

A story on its website states, “Silva produces 50 New England Business Reports each week which are heard weekday mornings and afternoons on WBZ. It’s the only broadcast series in Boston that exclusively focuses on business, technology, and medical developments in the region.

“He also puts together the daily WBZ ‘MarketWrap,’ providing the closing stock numbers for the largest employers in Massachusetts, ‘The New England Small Business Report,’ and the daily ‘Money Matters’ segment with Certified Financial Planner Dee Lee.

“Silva is also well-known for his WBZ Business Breakfast Series. For more than 20 years, he’s hosted for the open discussions with featured speakers including Sir Richard Branson, Jack Welch, Katie Couric, George Stephanopoulos, John Henry and many others.”

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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.