CLINTON, Miss. — Longtime Baptist journalist Jim Newton died Jan. 16 in Clinton, Miss., after a battle with leukemia.
Newton, 75, was born in Kingsville, Texas, into the third generation of a family of weekly newspaper editors. After graduating from Baylor University in 1958, he worked as associate editor of The Bishop News until he became press representative of the Baptist General Convention of Texas in 1959.
He was assistant director of Baptist Press in Nashville from 1965 to 1973. After that he worked eight years as editor of World Mission Journal, published by the SBC Brotherhood Commission in Memphis, Tenn. In 1980 he joined the staff of the Home Mission Board in Atlanta, retiring in 1992 as public relations director to accept a communications position with the U.S. based-office of World Vision International in California.
Newton was an ordained minister and deacon serving in various capacities in the local churches where he lived.
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