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Consumer business reporter Wallenfang leaving Wisconsin paper

Maureen Wallenfang

Maureen Wallenfang, who has written the consumer business column The Buzz for the Appleton Post-Crescent in Wisconsin for the past 19 years, is leaving the paper.

She has accepted a buyout offer.

Wallenfang writes, “Readers have been crucial to the success of The Buzz, my consumer business column that ran every Sunday and got more than two million page views a year. I appreciate each and every one of you who sent in questions, answered my calls or held my feet to the fire.

“I also had opportunities to write in-depth business stories that garnered a number of Wisconsin Newspaper Association honors. I stepped up to the podium in Madison in March last year to accept the best business reporter of the year award.

“Some of my favorite stories over the years were those about the people behind the companies.”

Read more here.

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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  • We'll miss your column. Corry read it every Sunday and always appreciated how thorough you were and how well it was written. I did too and fondly remembered you as a student at East and weeing you at the Paper Discovery banquets. Bona fortuna!

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