He started working part time with the Nashville Banner in 1943 and spent a career as a reporter, covering police, politics, entertainment, business and other beats, and retiring as vice president and senior business editor when the Banner folded in 1998.Beth Fortune, Vanderbilt University vice chancellor for Public Affairs, started at the Banner in 1985 and spent 7 years there. She said Battle helped show her and other young reporters the ropes.
“Newsrooms are filled with great characters, and Bob Battle was one of the greatest,” she said.
Friday, January 22, 2010
Bob Battle, former Banner business editor, dies at 82
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