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NY Post biz copy editor Walsh has died

Brenda Walsh, longtime chief of The New York Post’s business section copy desk, died Monday after a battle with cancer. She was 62.

A story on the Post website states, “‘Brenda Walsh loved the New York Post, but Brenda would want everyone to know that she loved golf even more,’ Post Business Editor Rich Wilner said.

“John Crudele, whose columns Walsh edited for more than 20 years, said, ‘She always said she could beat me on the course. And she was right — although I never admitted it.’

“Walsh’s survivors include her brothers, Kevin and Frank Walsh, and sisters, Eileen Walsh, Catherine Sonderquist and MaryAnn Sullivan.”

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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.