By Kevin McCauley
Dean Murphy, a 12-year veteran of the New York Times, has been named editor of the paper’s business section. He succeeds Larry Ingrassia, who held that post since 2004.
Jill Abramson, executive editor, lauded Murphy as “one of our most accomplished editors, a staunch advocate of reporters and a fine writer himself.”
As deputy editor, he “brought heart and breadth to our already superb business report,” she wrote in a memo.
Prior to the NYT, Murphy was foreign correspondent at the Los Angeles Times in Poland, South Africa and the former Yugoslavia.
At the NYT, he covered politics, reported from San Francisco and was deputy national editor before moving to the business side.
Ingrassia is slated for a “larger role” at the paper, according to Abramson’s note to staffers. |