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, […]
Ratigan remembers Pittman
Former Bloomberg reporter Dylan Ratigan praised the work of former Bloomberg reporter Mark Pittman, who died last week, on his MSNBC show Monday. Ratigan stated, “I want to take a minute to salute a former colleague of mine and a reporter who had the guts not only to take on the Federal Reserve, but to […]
Bloomberg's Pittman remembered
Bloomberg News reporter Mark Pittman, who died earlier this week, is remembered by a number of journalists and sources on Saturday. Felix Salmon of Reuters writes, “Pittman was an aggressive, old-school journalist, who was in his element going after big Wall Street institutions. Like most of the journalists I’ve criticized, he never responded to my […]
Pittman, Bloomberg reporter, dies
Mark Pittman, the award-winning investigative reporter whose fight to open the Federal Reserve to more scrutiny led Bloomberg News to sue the central bank and win, died on Wednesday, according to a Bloomberg story. He was 52. Bob Ivry writes, “A former police-beat reporter who joined Bloomberg News in 1997, Pittman wrote stories in 2007 […]
Former WSJ banking editor dies
H. Lee Silberman, the former banking editor of The Wall Street Journal and Wall Street correspondent for The Economist, died last week at the age of 90 in North Carolina. An obituary in the Clayton News-Star noted, “Silberman’s first love, however, was newspapers, a passion he pursued from the time he was editor of the […]
