Former North Carolina biz editor dies

Tom Bost, the former business editor of The Sentinel in Winston-Salem, N.C., died recently at the age of 89.

Paul Garber of The Winston-Salem Journal writes, “Bost earned a journalism degree from UNC Chapel Hill in 1944. Before joining the Journal in 1953, he had been a reporter for the Greensboro Daily News and also worked at the Statesville Daily Record, where he was a part-owner until the newspaper was sold in 1979.

“In Winston-Salem, he started out as a reporter for the Journal, then switched to The Sentinel — an afternoon newspaper that closed in 1985 — where he worked as a reporter and editor.

“He was named business editor of The Sentinel in 1968 and held the position until September 1979, when he left to pursue freelance work.

“Jo Dawson, who worked on the copy desk for The Sentinel during Bost’s time there, described Bost as a hardworking, cheerful colleague who was devoted to newspapers.”

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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.