Fred Kapner
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Obituary: Fred Kapner, 1960-2005
Obituary: Fred Kapner, 1960-2005
Fred Kapner, the Financial Times' Europe news editor who died suddenly at the end of 2005 aged 45, was a meticulous reporter and exacting news editor held in high esteem by colleagues and contacts alike.
A tribute from the FT foreign desk editor
In the last article that Fred wrote for the Financial Times, he invited his readers to take a journey with him to the outskirts of Florence.
A tribute from Les Echos
La grande famille de la presse a perdu l’un de ses meilleurs « reporters ». Fred Kapner, Europe News Editor du « Financial Times », est décédé le 28 décembre, à quarante-cinq ans, d’une rupture d’anévrisme.
Related content and features
Read a selection of Fred’s writing
Italy's rooms without a view
To visit Boboli Gardens is to connect with the essence of Italy. Even for jaded Florentines, the gardens rising up the hill behind the Pitti Palace are a graceful escape from the treeless and congested Renaissance city. Or, rather, they were.
Probe raises ghost of Calvi affair
Memories of the country’s most lurid scandals
Corporate Italy grapples with the Parmalat effect
Italian companies, their image stung by the Parmalat scandal, are scrambling to improve transparency and corporate governance during this month's round of annual shareholder meetings.
Further reading
Of milk and money
When Calisto Tanzi stepped out of his $45m Bombardier Global Express jet in Managua, Nicaragua, in June 2002, the founder and chairman of Parmalat appeared to be on top of the world. But Mr Tanzi’s downfall has dealt corporate Italy’s reputation a huge fresh blow.
Eight billion reasons to destroy Parmalat 'Account 999'
As Parmalat executives last December took a hammer to a computer at headquarters and crudely attempted to destroy evidence, one of the most damning files under attack was ‘Account 999’.
A Sicilian opening Fiat regrets
Political pressures are forcing the troubled Italian carmaker to maintain a factory that has never made economic sense.
