WBBM Newsradio biz editor Walter is retiring

Len Walter

Len Walter, the business editor of WBBM Newsradio in Chicago, is retiring later this month.

A story on its website states, “Since 1982, Walter has been the all-news station’s business and financial editor. He made history by becoming the first journalist to broadcast regularly from what we now know as the Chicago Stock Exchange.

“After decades on the air and countless awards for excellence, Len has decided to retire. He’d like to spend more time with his wife, Barbara; his children; grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

“‘Len Walter has been synonymous with Chicago business,’ WBBM Newsradio Brand Manager and News Director said in an email to staff Friday. ‘We will miss his authoritative voice, his business acumen, and his love of radio reporting.’

“Walter’s last broadcast will be on Jan. 22.”

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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.