Floyd Norris

Floyd Norris(born September 6, 1947Los Angeles) is the formerchief financial correspondent ofThe New York TimesandInternational Herald Tribune. He wrote a regular column on the stock market for theTimes,plus ablog.He now serves as a professor atJohns Hopkins University.

Biography

Norris attendedUniversity of California, Irvine,then was a Walter Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism atColumbia University,where he received an MBA in 1982. He joined theTimesin 1988. He previously worked as a columnist and writer forBarron's.In 2014 he accepted the NY Times buyout package offer.His last day was December 19, 2014.

Norris worked forBarron'sbeginning in December 1982, as a staff writer and later stock market editor. Norris was recognized by the New York Society of Certified Public Accountants for "outstanding reporting on accounting issues" in 1984. Also, he was recognized by the Financial Writers Association of New York for "outstanding lifetime achievement" in 1998.

Norris began his career as a reporter for theCollege Press Servicein 1969. From 1970 to 1972, he was a reporter and editor forThe Manchester (N.H.) American.From 1972 to 1974, he was a political reporter for theConcord (N.H.) Monitor.From 1974 to 1977, he worked forUPI,then from 1977 to 1978, he was press secretary for SenatorJohn A. Durkin.From 1978 to 1981, he was an editor and business writer for theAP.

He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Christine Bockelmann.

Awards

• 2003 Loeb Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2001Gerald Loeb Award,for Commentary
• 1998 Elliott V. Bell Award, by theNew York Financial Writers Association

Works

• Floyd Norris, Christine Bockelmann (eds),The New York Times Century of Business,McGraw-Hill, 2000,ISBN978-0-07-135589-6

External links

• Norris' blogatThe New York Times
• Floyd Norris' NewsBios Homepage
• AppearancesonC-SPAN
• Floyd NorrisonCharlie Rose
• Floyd Norriscollected news and commentary atThe New York Times