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Dow Jones/WSJ reporter dies of leukemia

Maya Jackson Randall, a reporter for Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal in Washington, has died of leukemia.

Randall covered financial and consumer issues. She had also worked at Money magazine and at McGraw-Hill Cos. as an assistant editor.

The leukemia was apparently very aggressive. Randall had been tweeting as recently as December, and had a byline as recently as Nov. 19.

Randall had a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Howard University and a master’s in public affairs reporting from the University of Maryland.

She interned at Newsweek and at The Journal.

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.