Former KC Star biz editor Miller dies

Janet Miller, a former business editor of The Kansas City Star and Times, died Thursday. She was 65.

A story in the Star stated, “Miller, who was 65, joined the newspaper in 1969 as a business reporter and copy editor. Part of her beat involved covering the Kansas City Stockyards.

“Four years later, Miller was named assistant business editor, and in 1978 she was appointed business and financial editor of The Star and The Times. One of the few women financial editors at the time, Miller oversaw expansion of the newspaper’s business news department and helped groom journalistic talent.

“After leaving the paper in 1983, Miller embarked on a second career assisting several of the area’s prominent community and non-profit organizations. Among the organizations she served, Miller was known for ability to decipher complex financial information.

“Miller was involved with the Kansas City Art Institute for 22 years as a director. She also served one term as chairman.

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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.