Saks, former Reuters journalist, dies at 79

Rudi Saks

Rudi Saks, a longtime Reuters reporter and editor, died on Jan. 15 at the age of 79.

An obituary on WestportNow.com (Conn.) states, “He graduated from Wrentham Center High School, where he was salutatorian, in 1957. Rudi met his wife, Sieglinde (Siegi) in Crailsheim, Germany while serving for three years in the Public Information Office of the U.S. Army.

“They married in Crailsheim in 1962. They came to the U.S. together, and he graduated from Boston University with a degree in Journalism in 1965.

“His first job in journalism was with the North Attleboro Sun, and he had subsequent positions with United Press International and then the Reuters news agency for over 35 years.

“He worked as financial news editor for Reuters in New York, California and London. He was a dedicated, principled and passionate journalist, who gave many others their start.”

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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.