Wilkerson, Mergermarket reporter in Chicago, has died

David Wilkerson

Longtime business journalist David Wilkerson died this past weekend. He was 50.

Wilkerson died in a house fire.

Wilkerson most recently had been working in Chicago as a reporter for Dealreporter and Mergermarket. As a member of the technology, media and telecom team, he focused his coverage on media, including broadcast and cable television, radio, digital advertising and ad tech, and newspaper and magazine publishing.

Most of his stories conveyed news and financial information related to company strategies, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, restructuring and recapitalization.

Wilkerson also worked for 16 years at MarketWatch.com in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago covering a variety of stories.

He was known for his Mr. T impersonation and being a fan of the Cleveland Indians.

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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Veronica Hinke says:
April 19, 2020 at 9:14 am
Dave was a very good, decent man and a wonderful reporter who valued & practiced the fundamental skills & principles of journalism. I was blessed with his friendship & one of many who will always miss his kindness, ingenuity & wit. Thank you for this beautiful, much-deserved tribute that memorializes the journalism career of my dear, great friend & colleague.