Former Sun-Times biz reporter Moore dies

Patricia Moore, a former business reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times, died July 6 from Alzheimer’s.

Maureen O’Donnell of the Sun-Times writes, “She stayed until the paper folded in 1978, moving on to the Sun-Times, where she worked until the mid-1990s as a real estate writer and business reporter.

“‘She knew all of those people, like the Smiths and Armours,’ said Barbara Varro, former fashion editor and feature writer for the Sun-Times. ‘Pat covered all of those grande dames, all the dowagers.’

“‘She had to deal with the upper crust, but she never took them very seriously, to her credit,’ said former Sun-Times reporter Harlan Draeger.

“At the Daily News, she covered a tour of Lambs Farm by First Lady Betty Ford; Princess Grace of Monaco’s visit to the Chicago discotheque Zorine’s, and the filming of Robert Altman’s ‘A Wedding,’ at a Lake Bluff estate of the Armour meatpacking clan.”

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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.