Morning report
Jim Naughton
Prank-loving journalist Jim Naughton — former New York Times reporter, Philadelphia Inquirer editor and Poynter president — died on Saturday after battling prostate cancer for more than a decade. “Throughout, he engaged his illness with the humor that laced his life at home and at work,” write Butch Ward and Bill Mitchell. “At one point last year, friends and colleagues clicked open an email to find a photo of Jim about to climb onto a table for radiation treatment, dressed as a Sumo wrestler.”
Jim hired me at Poynter in 1999 and he always defended my work, even when it was attacked by prominent editors on Poynter’s national advisory board. (They didn’t like that I posted memos and linked to press criticism from alt-weeklies.) He was a great boss. “Jim was a good man, and everyone who knew him knows that,” Jim’s wife Diana told the Inquirer. “He leaves a lot of good memories with many, many people.” The tributes on Jim’s Facebook page prove that.
* An editor who brought fun to the newsroom (philly.com)
* Naughton liked to say he covered the political losers (nytimes.com)
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