James Batten

James Batten

James Batten (1936 - 1995) was chief executive officer of Knight-Ridder publishing. A native of Suffolk, Virginia, he studied chemistry and biology at Davidson College and began working as a journalist for the Charlotte Observer in 1957. He joined Knight-Ridder's Washington, D.C. bureau in 1965 and covered the American Civil Rights Movement. He became City Editor of the Detroit Free Press in 1971, then returning to Charlotte, N.C. in 1972 as Executive Editor. He moved to the company's corporate headquarters in Miami in 1975, becoming company president in 1982 and CEO in 1989. In 1994 he was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor and survived one year.

See also

* List of notable brain tumor patients

External links

* [http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1995/vp950625/06250054.htm The Virginian Pilot]
* [http://www.braintumor.org/newsroom/quick_facts/ Braintumor.org]


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