Bloomberg Businessweek hires Purves as features editor

Bloomberg Businessweek editor Ellen Pollock sent out the following announcement to the staff on Monday:

I’m pleased to announce that Miranda Purves is joining Bloomberg Businessweek today as a features editor. Miranda was most recently the editor in chief of Flare magazine in Toronto, where she oversaw a major redesign of the 37 year-old Canadian fashion media brand. At Flare, she introduced long form journalism, running features investigating the impact of diamond mining in northern Canada, leather processing in Bangladesh, and the litigation surrounding the Yasmin birth control pill. Previously, she was a senior editor at ELLE and Mademoiselle. So, yes, she probably knows more about fashion than you do. (And I’m hoping she’ll keep her opinions on my wardrobe to herself.)

Miranda began her journalism career at the National Post in Canada and also served as a story coordinator for The Ren and Stimpy Show in the early 90’s! Her freelance writing has appeared in ELLE, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Salon and the ParisReview.com.

For those wondering if she’s Canadian, Miranda has dual U.S. and Canadian citizenship. At some later point we will convene a symposium on why so many Canadians have worked at Businessweek over the years.

Please welcome Miranda