SF Chronicle biz copy editor dies at 60

August Maggy, a copy editor for the San Francisco Chronicle’s business section, died after an illness. He was 60.

An obituary in the Saturday Chronicle stated, “Mr. Maggy had been a copy editor for The Chronicle for almost 23 years, most recently for the Business section. Colleagues said he took pride in being an ‘old-school journalist’ and was a stickler on points of story clarity and grammar.

“‘I learned a great deal from his sometimes pointed questions about newspapering and business journalism, and I came to respect his views greatly, especially because I knew they came from experience and a long institutional memory,’ said Business Editor Ken Howe.

“A lifelong Californian who was born in Stockton, Mr. Maggy worked as a news editor at the Richmond Independent and its later incarnation, the Contra Costa Independent, from 1969 until the newspaper folded in spring 1984. He was a copy editor at the Vallejo Times-Herald for a brief time, then joined The Chronicle in July 1984.”

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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.