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Remembering a bulldog business reporter

Alanna Autler of WSMV-TV writes about Tennesseean business reporter Getahn Ward, who died suddenly this weekend at 45.

Autler writes, “As a business journalist, Ward chronicled the rise of Nashville on its way to becoming the ‘it city.’

“Ward fled his home country of Liberia in the early 1990s during a bloody civil war.

“Ward was known as a dogged reporter who loved to get a scoop. His colleagues said he never took his job for granted and his absence was felt immediately in the newsroom.

“‘Sitting at that desk, he was all over the sources – sometimes juggling three phones at once,’ said Joey Garrison, Metro reporter with the Tennessean. ‘He just had a way about him, being so aggressive, such a bulldog reporter, so relentless.'”

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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.