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Wildstrom, well-known tech journalist, dies

Steve Wildstrom, a long-time BusinessWeek columnist and one of the first journalists to focus primarily on technology, died on Nov. 24 of brain cancer.

John Biggs of TechCrunch writes, “Wildstrom wrote the Technology & You for Business Week from 1994 to 2009. He was a larger-than-life figure in the world of journalism and, more specifically, tech journalism.

“His wife confirmed his death via Facebook.

“Born in Detroit, Wildstrom went to the University of Michigan and began writing for BusinessWeek in 1972 where he served as news editor in BusinessWeek’s Washington bureau. He was also active in the Children’s Chorus of Washington.

“‘Steve Wildstrom at Business Week was hands-down the best person in the 1990s-2000s to explain to a broad nationwide audience what tech meant to them in their personal and business lives,’ wrote Bill Howard, an editor at PC Magazine.”

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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.

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bhankes says:
November 25, 2015 at 4:42 pm
This is such incredibly sad news. Steve, of course, was one of the most respected technology reviewers, but more than that, he was a kind and decent man. I will miss him, and I know countless others will as well.