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Iowa biz journal ME dies

Jim Pollock, the managing editor of the Des Moines Business Record, died Thursday due to complications from chemotherapy. He was 59.

Chris Conetzkey, the editor of the Business Record, writes, “Jim had been with the company since April 2004, serving first as managing editor and then as the Business Record’s editor until May 2011, when he returned to the role of managing editor. He began writing ‘Transitions,’ his weekly column, shortly after starting at the Business Record and continued delivering his witty, refreshing commentary about life and the business community until the very end.

“Jim was a graduate of Iowa State University, and dedicated 35 years of his life to journalism, working first as the sports editor of the Marshalltown Times-Republican, then as a Des Moines Register reporter for 20 years, and as an editor at Meredith Corp. for five years.

“Arrangements are being made at Hamilton’s Funeral Home in Altoona but are still pending.

“If the news comes as a shock, know it comes as a shock for us, too. Jim began what was supposed to be a short chemotherapy treatment just over three weeks ago for what doctors expected to be a very curable, non-life-threatening form of cancer.”

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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.