Boston Globe names Edelman a biz columnist

Larry Edelman, who has been the business editor for the Boston Globe, has been named a business columnist at the paper.

He’ll write about business, finance, and markets, both locally and nationally. He was previously a deputy managing editor at the paper.

Edelman joined the paper at 2015 as business editor. He previously worked at Bloomberg News and The Wall Street Journal.

At the Journal, he was senior deputy editor, responsible for real-time coverage of markets and finance, and assisted with the planning and editing of the Money & Investing section. He had a decade-long run at Bloombergas a team leader, senior enterprise editor, and managing editor for investing and real estate. He still has many, many fans there.

He previously joined the Globe as a tech reporter in 1989. He moved to assistant business editor, before he had a strong and memorable five-year stint as business editor, ending in 1999.