Donald Moffitt, a retired news editor of The Wall Street Journal in New York, died Tuesday at the age of 88.
An obituary states, “He graduated from Yale in 1958 and joined The Wall Street Journal in 1960 in the paper’s Dallas news bureau, transferring to San Francisco in 1966.
“With the late Art Sears, Jr., a native of Newport News and the Journal’s first black reporter, Moffitt shared a 1970 Mike Berger Award from Columbia University for reporting on New York City affairs. The two reporters wrote a series of stories on life in a poor black and Latino neighborhood in the Bronx borough of the city, where they had rented a room for a month and probed the difficult lives of residents. For the series, called ‘Kelly Street Blues’ they were nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
“Moffitt resigned from the Journal in 1983 and became an assistant managing editor of Forbes magazine, but returned to the Journal in 1985 as a news editor, supervising a staff of investigative and other reporters. He became one of the newspaper’s page-one editors in 1987 and retired at the end of 1990.”
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