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Former Oregon biz editor dies

Peggyann Hutchinson, the business editor at the Medford Mail Tribune from 1986 to 1988, died Monday at the age of 82.

Paul Fattig of the Mail Tribune writes, “In 2007, she was given the Communicator of Achievement award by the National Federation of Press Women. Among her other many awards was the 1970 Emmy Award from Oregon Press Women. During its 50th anniversary gathering in 2001, the OPW honored Hutchinson with its Spirit of Press Women Award.

“‘With truth as her goal and accuracy as her by-word, Peggyann Hutchinson exemplifies the reporter in all of us’ Glennis McNeal, a past president of the OPW, said at the time. ‘She unfailingly carries out her responsibilities to the public, to her employers, to her community, to Oregon Press Women and to the National Federation of Press Women.’

“During her 42-year career with the newspaper, Hutchinson would be in the midst of changes in the industry, from hot-lead type to the computer age.

“Throughout her long professional life she earned the reputation as a no-nonsense journalist who boiled her chosen profession down to the essentials.”