Wersich, longtime Indiana biz reporter, dies at 80

Caroline Wersich

Caroline Wersich, a longtime business reporter in Evansville, Indiana, and one of the first female reporters in the city, has died at the age of 80.

Mark Wilson of the Evansville Courier & Press writes, “Tuley, who retired as editor and president of the Evansville Courier, said that when he became editor of that paper he asked Wersich to be the paper’s Community Services Director and connection to the community.

“He recalled how Wersich would quietly slip away from events before he could recognize her for putting them together.

“Wersich then worked for many years as a business reporter at the Evansville Courier and then the Courier & Press.

“‘She was such a lovely person and very talented. She never liked to be the center of attention,’ said Paul McAuliffe, a former editor and director of interactive strategies at the Courier & Press.

“‘When she came into the business, there weren’t very many women working in newspapers,’ he said. ‘She was a trailblazer in that respect.'”

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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.