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Mansfield, former Lansing State Journal biz editor, dies

Duncan Mansfield, who was the business editor of the Lansing State Journal in Michigan in the 1980s, has died at the age of 62 from pancreatic cancer.

An AP story states, “Mansfield served as AP’s Knoxville correspondent from 1989 to 2009, focusing on breaking news and enterprise in east Tennessee. He was the news cooperative’s last correspondent in Knoxville when AP eliminated the position in 2009.

“In all, he worked about 24 years for AP with earlier assignments in Boston and Columbia, South Carolina. He also worked as a business editor and political editor for the Lansing State Journal in Michigan.

“‘Duncan was a strong writer who took great care to make sure he thoroughly understood what he was writing about, particularly the environment and the Smoky Mountains,’ said Adam Yeomans, AP’s regional director of the South.

“As a single-person AP correspondent covering a wide region, Mansfield often worked with little direction, using his initiative and commitment to pursue the region’s most compelling stories and explain them to a worldwide audience, Yeomans 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.