Biz journalist Simons joining Brunswick Group

Longtime business journalist John Simons is joining communications firm Brunswick Group next week.

For the past two years, Simons has been an executive editor at Time magazine, overseeing business, technology and nation coverage.

“What excites me most about Brunswick is the broad range of advice it delivers to its clients,” said Simons in an email to Talking Biz News. “After 30 years as a business journalist, I feel like a lifelong sportscaster who gets to move out of the press box and onto the sidelines, where I can see the game from a different point of view and perhaps have more direct influence on how it’s played.”

Simons previously was at The Wall Street Journal where he was deputy health and science editor and bureau chief for health business. Prior to that, he was based in the WSJ’s London bureau guiding energy coverage.

He has also been an editor and manager at the Associated Press, Black Enterprise and IBT/Newsweek. As a writer and reporter at Fortune, the WSJ and U.S. News & World Report earlier in his career, he covered the drug and biotech industries, immigration, technology and economic policy.