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How Kangas helped “Nightly Business Report” viewers

Howard Cohen of The Miami Herald writes about how “Nightly Business Report” anchor Paul Kangas, who died Tuesday at the age of 79, helped his viewers.

Cohen writes, “As news of Kangas’ declining health spread, Linda O’Bryon, founding ‘Nightly Business Report’ executive editor and the original co-anchor who shared that duty with Kangas for years, began to reflect on their professional moments together. She remembered a particular caller, a woman in her mid-90s, who Kangas went out of his way to help.

“Once a week, O’Bryon said, this woman would call into WPBT’s North Miami studio and ask to speak with Kangas. She couldn’t see too well and she didn’t trust anyone to tell her what her stocks were doing. So every week, Kangas would take her call after filming his segment and go over her portfolio of stocks with her.

“The point, O’Bryon, said, is that someone reached out to Kangas and it didn’t matter who it was. ‘I think that sort of speaks volumes for how he was so trusted by people who really depended on this information — whether they were investors or not,’ she said.”

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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.