Bloomberg News editor Curran dies at 59

John J. Curran, a Bloomberg News editor who previously was a longtime journalist at Fortune and editor of Mutual Funds magazine, has died. He was 59.

Charles Stevens of Bloomberg writes, “In a career spanning more than three decades in New York, Curran wrote and edited stories on investing, banking, Wall Street and regulation. He also reported and oversaw coverage about international economics. In 1988, while at Fortune, a Time Inc. publication, he received an Overseas Press Club award for his reporting on Japan.

“In 2001, Curran received a Time Inc. Luce Award for commissioning and publishing a story on the threat of global terrorism reaching the U.S. — six months before the Sept. 11 attack that year on the World Trade Center in New York.

“‘John was the consummate dedicated professional who never took the cheap route to a conclusion or a story,’ John Huey, a colleague and former Time Inc. editor-in-chief, said in an e-mail. ‘He had the toughness and mindset of a prosecutor, but to him everyone really was innocent until proven guilty. And he infused that ethic into several generations of journalists who worked for him.’

“Curran, who began his journalism career at the Wall Street Transcript, spent the bulk of his working life at Fortune, starting in 1978. As an executive editor, he ran the magazine’s investing coverage and was responsible for producing its special guides to investing and retirement.”

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