Ripley Watson Jr., who covered business for The Journal of Commerce, the Associated Press and Bond Buyer, has died at the age of 86.
A Journal of Commerce story stated that Watson’s journalism career “spanned more than three decades, died Dec. 28 in Westminster, Md. He was 86.
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“Watson worked for 19 years at The Associated Press and a total of 15 years at The Bond Buyer and The Journal of Commerce, where he worked from the late Seventies to the mid-Eighties. For eight years, he was an account executive at Carl Byoir & Associates, a public relations agency.
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“A Jersey City native, he was the fifth generation of his family to graduate from Rutgers College, where he was editor of the college newspaper and played football.”
Read more here. Here’s an oral history interview Watson did with Rutgers in 1999.
