Bloomberg Businessweek hires Purves as features editor

Miranda Purves

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

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.