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Schiffer, business journalist, dead at 54

Craig Schiffer, who worked for Nikkei News, a Japanese financial news publication, died after being hit by a police car this weekend. He was 54.

Tania Lopez of Newsday writes, “Schiffer worked for years for small newspapers like the Southern Dutchess News and the Queens Tribune. He also reported for trade publications like American Metal Market and Electronic Buyer News, his wife said.

“But most recently and for the past decade, Schiffer worked for Nikkei News, a Japanese financial news publication. There he rewrote stories that had been translated to English from Japanese ‘so they all sounded good,’ his wife said.

“‘Craig was a pretty quiet guy. Very bright, very smart. He was very well read. Whether it was classics, or fantasies, he was a big reader,’ she said, adding her husband loved the Mets and the Jets. ‘He was a loyal fan.'”

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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.