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Markowitz, former Pittsburgh Tribune-Review biz editor, dies at 85

Jack Markowitz

Jack Markowitz, the former business editor of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, died Tuesday at the age of 85.

Chris Togneri of the paper writes, “When Jack Markowitz came to the Tribune-Review in 1978, he brought instant credibility to the business desk and a unique ability to mix humor with expertise in explaining complex issues.

“‘He was a superb business columnist,’ said John Oravecz, who succeeded Markowitz as business editor in 1996. ‘Even his run-of-the-mill columns were better than most, but when he was on top of his game, there was nobody better. … He was entertaining and humorous and authoritative. And he knew business and how businesses operate.’

“Mr. Markowitz died Tuesday, April 4, 2017, after a brief battle with lymphoma. He was 85.

“Mr. Markowitz worked more than 60 years in the news business: As a copyboy at the New York Daily News, a reporter at the Philadelphia Daily News and as business editor at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — where he stayed until 1978 — and then the Tribune-Review and Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. He continued to write columns for the Trib years after his retirement.”

Read more here.

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.

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