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Adding high-quality stories at International Business Times

Lucia Moses of Digiday interviewed Peter Goodman, the new editor at International Business Times, about his plans for the website.

Here is an excerpt:

Plenty of news organizations cover the globe. Why have another one?
I don’t think there’s a truly global publication that speaks to a general-interest consumer. I think the time is right because everybody from blue-collar workers to people who work on Wall Street has figured out that the money is global. An upper-middle-class educated person probably has more in common with someone who meets that description in London than someone who lives in the American hinterland. If you’re not thinking globally, you’re missing how stuff works. Our sensibility is really about how to do that effectively.

What’s the immediate challenge?
The mandate is to add high-quality stories to a newsroom that is eclectic and interesting but doesn’t always have the focus on ambition. I’d like to conceptualize some series, drill deeper into data, hold institutions to account, adding a unique voice. There are some series we’ve conceptualized. We’ll be stepping away from doing dutiful news and looking to pick our spots and go deeper and elevate the writing. I’d like to see us go hard at urban planning, architecture, film, youth culture.

Read more here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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