Fox Business senior story editor Spinato dies from COVID

Eric Spinato

Eric Spinato, the head booker and senior story editor for the Fox Business Network, died over the weekend, the network said Monday.

Oliver Darcy of CNN Business reports, “Spinato’s brother, Dean, wrote on social media that the cause of death had been the coronavirus.

“‘COVID took my brother today,’ he wrote. ‘He was a gem and one of a kind. I’m so broken and lost for words.’

“Spinato worked at Fox for nearly 20 years. He joined the network in 1998, before briefly leaving in 2004 to work at CNN and MSNBC. He returned to Fox in 2007 and worked at the company ever since, working primarily with Maria Bartiromo.

“Fox Business host David Asman reported on Spinato’s death Monday afternoon.”

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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.