Edmund Rooney.(1960)(Obituary)(Brief article)
Nieman Reports, March, 2007 by Fiore Lois
Edmund Rooney, 82, died on January 27th at his home in Chicago, Illinois of a variety of illnesses, including a stroke in December. Rooney spent 26 years at the Chicago Daily News, taught journalism at Loyola University starting in the 1960's and continuing throughout his career, and earned a doctoral degree in education at Loyola in 1992, when he was 67.
In an obituary by Trevor Jensen in the Chicago Tribune, Rooney is characterized as "a tenacious reporter who got to sources first and wouldn't take no for an answer." Bob Herguth, one of Rooney's colleagues from the Daily News, said "He was a personality that stood out. He had a big voice, and he was very straight ahead. He hated to get beaten on anything." Rooney was "an old-fashioned street reporter...
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