Subprime-Era Journalist Loses Battle With Cancer The mortgage industry has lost a veteran journalist who chronicled the highs and lows of subprime lending and who had reported for Mortgage Daily. Neil J. Morse earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Bridgeport. He additionally earned a master's in communications from Fairfield University, where he also was an adjunct faculty member for several years. Morse got his start as a reporter for the mortgage industry in the 1990's. read story

LendingTree Selects Ocean Media as Agency of Record for Media Planning and Buying
LendingTree (NASDAQ: TREE), the nation's leading online source of competitive home loan offers and information, has selected Ocean Media (www.oceanmediainc.com), one of the country's largest independent media planning and buying firms, as its agency of record for advertising planning and buying.

Generation Mortgage Hires PR Firm
The Titan Agency announced that it has added Generation Mortgage Co. to its growing client roster.

Foreclosure Victims Wanted
A huge outreach campaign is being launched to identify victims of faulty foreclosures. The effort follows a direct-mail campaign to million of prospective victims.

Strategic Vantage Hires Mike Murray Strategic Vantage, one of the nation's largest marketing and public relations agencies dedicated to the mortgage industry, announced the appointment of Mike Murray as Senior Account Executive.

Comedy of Error in Foreclosure Case Comedic reporting from The Daily Show's John Oliver provides a hilarious take on a painful public relations fiasco for Bank of America Corp.

First Option Mortgage Selects The Partnership as Advertising Agency of Record
First Option Mortgage, LLC selected The Partnership of Atlanta, Inc. as its new advertising, digital marketing and media agency of record.

LPS v. Reuters
It's a war of words between Lender Processing Services and Reuters news service. The mortgage service provider also has a few qualms with The Florida Times-Union.

Trade Groups, Regulators Shuffle Executives
Recent executive activity at one mortgage trade group included the appointment of a new chairman, communications executive and technology vice president -- among several others. A banking association has a new chairman, while a former executive with Fannie Mae has joined a public policy research group. A recently passed law has two bank regulators busy filling mandated positions.