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Reno, former Newsday biz columnist, dies at 72

Robert Reno, who wrote a column for Newsday’s business section until retiring in 2003, died at the age of 72. He was the brother of former attorney general Janet Reno.

An Associated Press story states, “Another sister, Maggy Hurchalla, says her brother died Saturday at the Bruce W. Carter Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Miami of complications from Alzheimer’s disease.

“Reno’s column ran in Newsday’s business section. He worked at The Times-Picayune of New Orleans, La., and The Miami Herald before joining Newsday in 1968. His final column ran in 2003.

“He was a third-generation newspaperman. His parents wrote for The Miami Herald and the Miami News and a grandfather was a photographer for the Herald.”

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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.