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Former biz editor of Georgia newspaper dies

Bryant Steele

Bryant Steele, the former business editor of the Rome (Georgia) News-Tribune, died Wednesday.

A story in the Marietta Daily Journal reports, “He came to work at the Rome News-Tribune in December of 2007 as the business editor, but began his journalism career as the editor of the University of Georgia’s Red & Black newspaper.

“He also worked at the Augusta Chronicle and The Macon Telegraph.

“Steele’s career then moved on to work for AT&T and was a media spokesman for the company when a bomb went off in the AT&T Pavilion at Centennial Park during the 1996 Olympics.

“In the days following, Steele became the point person for much of the information disseminated to the media. Also, in the wake of the bombing, he arranged interviews for the security guard who found the bomb and alerted authorities to its presence.”

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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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