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James Mark Pittman (October 25, 1957 - November 25, 2009) was a financial journalist covering corporate finance and derivative markets. He was awarded several prestigious journalism awards, the Gerald Loeb Award, the George Polk Award, a New York Press Club award, the Hillman Prize and several New York Associated Press awards. == Biographical details == Pittman was born in Kansas City, Kansas. Standing , he was a linebacker on his high school football team.〔Bob Ivry, ("Mark Pittman, Reporter Who Challenged Fed Secrecy, Dies at 52" ) Bloomberg News (November 30, 2010). Retrieved March 7, 2011〕 After attending engineering classes, Pittman graduated in 1981 with a degree in journalism from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.〔 He met his second wife, Laura Fahrenthold of Rochester, New York,〔 also a journalist.〔Marek Fuchs, ("Do Yonkers Artists Find the Paint Greener in Peekskill?" ) ''The New York Times'' (June 12, 2005). Retrieved March 10, 2011〕 Their two daughters are Nell and Susannah.〔 His daughter Maggie, born in 1983, is from his first marriage to Vicky Pittman, which ended in divorce.〔 Five years after moving to Yonkers from Brooklyn, they opened an art gallery there in 2005.〔〔Jennifer Medina, ("Brooklynites Find and Fill a Culture Gap in Yonkers" ) ''The New York Times'' (June 6, 2005). Retrieved March 10, 2011〕 The name of the gallery, Y.O.H. Gallery, which stood for "Yonkers on Hudson", was an attempt to blend the city's urban culture with phrasing suggestive of more affluent towns on the Hudson further north.〔 Pittman died in Yonkers in 2009. The precise cause of death wasn’t known, said his friend William Karesh, vice president of the Global Health Program at the Bronx Zoo, New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society.〔("Mark Pittman, Reporter Who Challenged Fed Secrecy, Dies at 52 " ) ''Bloomberg'' (November 30, 2009). Retrieved May 5, 2014〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mark Pittman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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