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Yamarone, founder of Bloomberg economics newsletter, dies at 55

Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Economist Richard Yamarone passed away Nov. 28, 2017 at the age of 55. Bloomberg's Tom Keene and Michael McKee reflect on his career and accomplishments on "Bloomberg Surveillance." (Source: Bloomberg)

Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Economist Richard Yamarone passed away Nov. 28, 2017 at the age of 55. Bloomberg’s Tom Keene and Michael McKee reflect on his career and accomplishments on “Bloomberg Surveillance.” (Source: Bloomberg)

Richard Yamarone, who created the Bloomberg economics newsletter seven years ago, died last month at the age of 55.

Ted Merz of Bloomberg, who hired Yamarone, writes, “When he started at Bloomberg he claimed he already knew 745 people at the company. It seemed preposterous, but Richard had a spreadsheet to prove it.

“He worked hard. He would get to the office by 4 a.m. to prepare the publication. He’d work a long day and then host a dinner for his friends, some of the best known economists on the Street.

“He treated the office like his living room. We sat close together. He would turn up the ringer on his phone because he was hard of hearing. When a call would come in, he would yell: ‘Don’t get up. It’s probably for me.’

“I’m not sure why that was so funny, but it was. And all the more so because he would do it day after day.

“Periodically Mike Bloomberg would send out an email to the entire company and Rich would jump out of his chair, exclaiming: ‘Mike is messaging me! Mike is messaging me!'”

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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.