Remembering professor Dave Morrow
The Donald W. Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada has a tribute to business journalism professor David Morrow, who died late Monday from pancreatic cancer, about how he quickly made an impact at the school despite just joining the faculty in August. The tribute states, “Morrow was the first Reynolds Endowed Chair […]
Cramer on Morrow's death: He taught us to sing
TheStreet.com co-founder and chairman Jim Cramer writes Tuesday about what he liked about working with Dave Morrow, the site’s former editor in chief who died Monday night. Cramer writes, “Dave Morrow was the good part of journalism in the 21st century, the journalism that you could still do, that you could still afford, that didn’t […]
Tribute to Dave Morrow
Here is an excerpt from TheStreet.com editor Glenn Hall‘s tribute to his predecessor Dave Morrow, who died Monday night from cancer at the age of 49: “During his 27-year journalism career, Dave left his imprint on many of the most influential media of our time, including SmartMoney magazine, The New York Times, The Detroit Free […]
Former TheStreet.com editor Morrow dies from cancer
TheStreet.com editor Glenn Hall sent the following e-mail: “It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I must tell you all about the passing of Dave Morrow, our former Editor in Chief. “Dave was a great champion of TheStreet during his eight years here, and his leadership brought some of the biggest successes […]
More on Jim Murphy from Dow Jones
Eduardo Kaplan, a managing editor at Dow Jones Newswires, has written a moving tribute to colleague Jim Murphy, who wrote the “Mark to Market” column and died Monday at the age of 66. Kaplan wrote, “Throughout the years, Jim’s ‘Mark To Market’ column lucidly dissected every major subject in the news as well as many […]
Murphy, "Mark to Market" columnist for Dow Jones, dies
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Here is the e-mail sent to the staff by Dow Jones Newswires managing editor Neal Lipschutz: “It is with great sadness that I inform you of the death of Jim Murphy, our esteemed ‘Mark to Market’ columnist. His pointed and often humorous writing style, his broad range of knowledge and his […]
Former Montreal biz editor dies
James Ferrabee, the business editor of the Montreal Gazette from 1989 to 1996, died Friday at a hospital. He was 72. Jan Ravensbergen of the paper writes, “Stints for Southam followed in Paris, Ottawa, then London through to 1989, when Ferrabee re-joined The Gazette and became the paper’s business editor, the post from which he […]
Former Nashville business editor dies
Bob Battle, the former business editor at the now-defunct Nashville Banner newspaper, died Friday at the age of 82. A story on the Tennessean site states, “Greg Bailey of Katcher Vaughn & Bailey Public Relations said Battle was his first editor. “‘He taught me how to cultivate sources and the internal politics and everything in […]
UPS driver charged in accident that killed Baltimore Sun reporter
The Baltimore Sun reports that a UPS driver has been charged with three traffic violations in an October accident that killed the paper’s business editor, Timothy Wheatley. Michael Dresser writes, “Kevin P. Callahan was charged with negligent driving, failure to stop at a red signal, and failure to obey a traffic device last week after […]
CJR's Starkman, Chittum remember Bloomberg's Mark Pittman
Dean Starkman and Ryan Chittum of Columbia Journalism Review write Tuesday about Bloomberg reporter Mark Pittman, who recently died, and what he meant to the profession. Starkman writes, “But for me, the thing that needs to be remembered, especially by financial journalists and the people who rely on them, is that Pittman represented an attitude, […]
