Longtime biz journalist Rohrer dies at 81

Julie Rohrer

Julie Rohrer, a longtime business journalist who chronicled well-known investors such as Julian Robertson, has died at the age of 81.

An obituary states, “After Wheaton, Ms. Rohrer moved to Manhattan and began a career as a financial journalist. She got her start at Business Week, went onto Forbes Magazine and finally landed at Institutional Investor Magazine, where she worked for almost 20 years. There she rose to the position of senior editor. She wrote articles and also had an industry “must read” column covering top professionals from money management firms and pension funds.”

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.