Mark Pittman

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 and first baseman on his high school teams. After attending engineering classes, he graduated in 1981 with a degree in journalism from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. He has a daughter, Maggie, from his first marriage. He met his second wife, Laura Fahrenthold of Rochester, New York, also a journalist, in 1994. Five years after moving to Yonkers from Brooklyn, they opened an art gallery there in 2005. 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.