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Topic: Memos Sent to Romenesko
Date/Time: 1/16/2008 2:07:24 PM
Title: Treaster leaves NYT to teach
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
 
Memo from New York Times business editor Larry Ingrassia

Colleagues,

For several decades Joe Treaster has been a dedicated reporter at The
New York Times, writing on a variety of issues in the U.S. and abroad. He has covered hurricanes in Louisiana and Florida, drug trafficking in Latin America and insurance shenanigans in New York.

Now, after a long career as a Times journalist, he has decided he wants
to teach a next generation of journalists to do what he loves, as a professor at the University of Miami's School of Communication.

Joe, who moves to academia at the end of February, will be missed by his many friends at The Times, who have long admired his hard work, good cheer and fearlessness - like when he drove into New Orleans in late August 2005, arriving just before Katrina to file eyewitness reports on one of the worst natural disasters in recent American history.

Joe's reporting from New Orleans was just one chapter in a career that
took him far and wide. Beginning as a correspondent for The Times in Vietnam, Joe has covered wars, politics, diplomacy, business and every day life throughout the world. His assignments for The Times, and for national magazines, have taken him to Asia, Africa, Australia, the Middle East, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean.

His byline ran on 2,753 Times stories, from datelines as farflung as Havana, Port-au-Prince, Amman, Baghdad and Cairo, to name just a few. He has been a recipient of a number of journalism awards, including three from the Overseas Press Club of America.

Many people at the Times know Joe for his work as a business reporter concentrating on the insurance industry, an assignment he began in the summer of 1996, after studying at the Columbia University Business School on a Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in 1995 and 1996.

But he has done many other things at The Times. For the five years before business school, Joe's primary assignment was writing about drug trafficking and illicit drug use in the United States, Europe and Latin America. The assignment was an outgrowth of his previous work in the cocaine fields of Colombia, Peru and Ecuador and the trafficking center of Panama as the newspaper?s Caribbean correspondent, responsible for parts of Latin America as well as the island region.

In addition, he often helped cover breaking foreign news. He reported
from Jordan, Iraq and Kuwait in the build-up to the Persian Gulf War, and returned to Kuwait in the fall of 1994 when Saddam Hussein threatened another invasion. That summer he reported from Guantanamo Bay on a surge in Cubans trying to make their way to a new life across the Florida Straits.

Joe has also found time to write books. He is the author of "Paul Volcker: The Making of A Financial Legend," and aco-author of a book on the experiences of the Americans taken hostage in Iran, "Inside Report on the Hostage Crisis: No Hiding
Place.? A third book, "Hurricane Force, In The Path of America?s Deadliest Storms,?was published in June 2007.

While this will be Joe's first full-time teaching stint, he knows his way
around a classroom. In recent years he has taught at Baruch College in New York, and in China, South Korea, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates in an international journalism program of Georgia State University. Attached is the full announcement from the University of Miami about Joe?s appointment.

As Joe takes this next step in his journalism career, we wish him and his
family - his wife Barbara J. Dill, a lawyer and writer, and their 12-year-old daughter, Chloe - the fondest of farewells.

Larry

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