Cummins, former Newsday biz journalist, dies at 70

Harriet Jane Cummins

Harriet Jane Cummins, who worked at Newsday as a business reporter, editor and columnist, died last week at the age of 70.

John Asbury of Newsday reports, “She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska and her Masters in English Literature from Creighton University in Omaha.

“She worked for the Fort Myers News-Press and the Omaha World Herald as an architecture columnist before moving to Long Island with her husband, Timothy Anderson, who worked at Newsday. She taught as an adjunct professor at Stony Brook University before joining the Newsday business section as a reporter, editor and columnist.

“Cummins moved onto the Star Tribune in 1996 and also published a book in 2006 about her mother’s life after fleeing Nazi Germany.”

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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.