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Buttner, Fox News biz journalist, dies at 55

Brenda Buttner

Brenda Buttner, the longtime host of Fox News’ “Bulls & Bears,” died Monday after a battle with cancer, reports Kate Feldman of the New York Daily News. She was 55.

Feldman writes, “The financial reporter, who graduated from Harvard University in 1983 and spent two years as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, got her professional start at an NBC affiliate in Reno, Nev., before hosting CNBC’s ‘The Money Club’ and serving as a correspondent from 1990 to 1998.

“The New Jersey resident joined Fox News in 2000 and served as a senior business correspondent and host of ‘Bulls and Bears.’

“‘Women are not afraid to simply admit they don’t know about something, which men rarely do,’ she told the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel in 1997. ‘So women realize there is no such thing as a stupid question when it comes to understanding an investment.’

“Fox News host Neil Cavuto honored his colleague on the air Monday.

“‘In her sickest moments, battling an unrelenting cancer, there was Brenda, cheering you on,’ he said.

“‘Business journalism is never going to be the same. I just don’t know, now that she’s gone, whether we’ll ever be.'”

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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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