Moulds, former Chicago biz reporter, dies at 85

Warren Moulds

Warren Moulds, a business reporter for Chicago papers in the 196os and 1970s, died in December at the age of 85.

Bob Goldsborough of the Chicago Tribune writes, “In the late 1960s, Moulds was hired as a business reporter for the Chicago’s American newspaper, which was owned by the Tribune. He remained with the paper after it was renamed Chicago Today in 1969.

“‘I remember him as a gentle soul,’ said retired WTTW-Ch. 11 producer Len Aronson, who in the 1960s and 1970s worked as a reporter alongside Moulds at Chicago’s American and then at Chicago Today. ‘He was a journalistic pro with a healthy curiosity, a clean and balanced writing style, a great sense of humor and a more than normal capacity for forgiveness.’

“Moulds left Chicago Today when the Tribune shuttered the paper in September 1974. The following month, he became the director of media relations for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and its International Monetary Market.”

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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.