Robert Carlton Bergenheim (January 19, 1924 – June 5, 2010) was an American

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and

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who founded the ''

Boston Business Journal The ''Boston Business Journal'' is a weekly, business-oriented newspaper published in Boston, Massachusetts. It is published by the American City Business Journals. The newspaper was founded by Robert Bergenheim and launched its first issue on ...

'', which published its first issue on March 2, 1981. He also served as the

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of the now defunct ''

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'' during the 1970s. He was a Nieman Fellow. Bergenheim was raised in

Dorchester, Massachusetts Dorchester (colloquially referred to as Dot) is a Boston neighborhood comprising more than in the City of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Originally, Dorchester was a separate town, founded by Puritans who emigrated in 1630 from Dorchester ...

. He enlisted in the

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in 1944 during

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, serving in the Pacific theater. He was selected for a fellowship from the

Nieman Foundation for Journalism The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University is the primary journalism institution at Harvard. It was founded in February 1938 as the result of a $1.4 million bequest by Agnes Wahl Nieman, the widow of Lucius W. Nieman, founder of ...

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, where he graduated in 1954. Bergenheim began his career at ''

The Christian Science Monitor ''The Christian Science Monitor'' (''CSM''), commonly known as ''The Monitor'', is a nonprofit news organization that publishes daily articles in electronic format as well as a weekly print edition. It was founded in 1908 as a daily newspaper ...

''. Robert Bergenheim died at his home in

Naples, Florida Naples is a city in Collier County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the historical city (i.e. in the immediate vicinity of downtown Naples) was 19,115. Naples is a principal city of the Naples-Marco Island, Flori ...

, of several health complications on June 5, 2010, at the age of 86. He was survived by his wife, the former Elizabeth McKee, whom he married in 1947; two daughters, Carol and Kristine; four sons, Robert, Roger, Ronald, and Michael; a granddaughter; and four grandsons. His fifth son,

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, who died in 2008, was the editor in chief of ''The Christian Science Monitor'' from 2005 to 2008.http://www.editorandpublisher.com/PrintArticle/Bergenheim-Former-Christian-Science-Monitor-Editor-Dies-in-Kansas-City

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