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Triplett, Bloomberg journalist and NLGJA president, dies

Michael Triplett, a Bloomberg journalist and president of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, died earlier this month from cancer. He was 48.

Adam Bernstein of The Washington Post writes, “At his death, Mr. Triplett was an assistant managing editor for the Daily Tax Report at Bloomberg BNA.

“He had spent about 12 years at the Bureau of National Affairs, a news service that provides legal, tax, business and government information. Bloomberg L.P. acquired BNA in 2011.

“In 2006, Mr. Triplett won a National Press Club award for his examination of the new terrain of employment and labor law issues affecting laborers in the video game industry.

“In August 2012, he became president of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. Earlier, he was Washington chapter president and vice president of print and new media.

“He was credited with playing a key role in the organization’s decision to join the minority journalists group Unity in 2011. He was one of the gay and lesbian group’s first representatives to the Unity board.”

Read more here.

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.

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