New deputy biz editor named at NYTimes

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE

New York Times business editor Larry Ingrassia sent out the following announcement to the staff on Monday:

“Many swaps in the financial world have gotten a bad rap of late. But then there are swaps that not only make great sense, but are brilliant – like Dean Murphy moving to Bizday as a deputy business editor as Adam Bryant moves to National.

“I am very excited to announce we have landed Dean, an editor par excellence with a great range of experience as a reporter, to partner with Bizday deputy Winnie O’Kelley and  me, along with the rest of our backfield, to help direct coverage during these most turbulent and important times.

“Like Winnie and Adam here in Bizday, Dean has legions of fans among National reporters, who have the highest regard for his ability to elevate stories both conceptually and stylistically. With all the moves going on in Bizday, we’ll let him get settled a bit before working out the details of his portfolio.

“In the past four years, as the deputy National editor, Dean oversaw broad topics such as the West, immigration and politics, and played a major role in conceiving and editing enterprise and projects. He worked with Glenn Kramon on the inter-desk immigration series, oversaw the ‘Beth Court’ foreclosure project by Jennifer Steinhauer and ran such developing news stories as the impeachment of the Illinois governor and the budget meltdown in California.

“Dean is cool-headed, creative and collegial, qualities he has brought to a number of assignments during a distinguished career in which he has demonstrated an intellectual curiosity for a range of subjects. Before coming to The Times in 2000, he worked for the Los Angeles Times for 15 years, including stints as a foreign correspondent in South Africa and Poland. At The Times he first worked on the metro desk and then became the paper’s National correspondent in San Francisco in 2002 before becoming National’s deputy editor in late 2005.

“While the National-Bizday editor swap was not originally conceived as one, but happened serendipitously, I feel very fortunate to get someone of Dean’s editing talent to team up with Winnie and me, as well as our other two deputies, Kevin McKenna and David Gillen, and Sunday Business editor Tim O’Brien, and the rest of the Bizday staff. We are on a great and highly competitive story, and I am confident that Dean will bring a smart perspective from the outside to help raise our coverage to new heights.”