TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE
Bloomberg Businessweek managing editor Ciro Scotti, who has been at the magazine since 1978, sent out the following announcement to the staff late Thursday:
My work here is done, and I will be leaving at the end of next week.
Before I go, I would like to thank Norm and Josh for letting me be part of the initial effort to build a spanking-new magazine on the footprint of BusinessWeek. What all of you have accomplished in less than a year is nothing short of astonishing and has upended the notion that the newsmagazine is a dead man on a weekly walk. Josh had a vision for a new book and somehow — with the talents of Richard and Ellen and Hugo and Cindy and David and Jon and Robert and a cadre of excellent editors, old and new — has managed to bring it to life (all while keeping a thousand balls in the air).
I’m going to skip the boilerplate about a great ride and smart people. The richness of my memories at BusinessWeek deserve more than a passing line, and if you weren’t brimming with brains and possibilities, believe me you wouldn’t be here.
But I can’t exit without saying how enormously I will miss my partners Prudence and Susan, my right and left hand Ilse, my longtime Copy Desk compatriots, and the quietly excellent members of Makeup. They have and will be a core strength of the magazine, and the good times we had together won’t soon be forgotten.
Lastly, I will miss collaborating with Online Managing Editor Martin Keohan and the business side — especially Christian “Dr. Evil” Corser, Chris Barrett, and the rest of the team that tries to make this a profitable venture while maintaining our integrity.
UPDATE: Scotti tells Talking Biz News that he has no immediate plans other than to do some writing.
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Hey, guy, just want to thank you for the departure verbiage. I am planning my own soon and will curtail some of the FU ideas I had been planning. Yours was a class act. Hoping you won't my paraphrases.
A bud you will never know.