Bob Goldsborough of the Chicago Tribune writes, “In 1963, the Wall Street Journal hired Fandell as a Chicago-based reporter.
“‘He had a lovely group of mentors there. He really learned a lot at the Wall Street Journal,’ his wife said.
“The paper later transferred Fandell from its Chicago office to the paper’s St. Louis bureau, where he was bureau chief ‘for a two-person office,’ his wife said with a laugh. He then was transferred to the paper’s New York office, and he moved his family to New Jersey.
“In 1976, the Tribune’s financial editor, Alvin Nagelberg, hired Fandell as his assistant business editor, a role that involved reporting and editing stories. Nagelberg said Fandell was hired in part in the belief he could lure reporters and editors from the Wall Street Journal, which is precisely what happened over the next several years.
“‘I found him to be a very meticulous person,’ Nagelberg said. ‘He took a lot of time developing his stories, and he thought about things for a long time. And he was a very hardworking, very smart reporter who would dig into a story and find sources.'”
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