Entrepreneur hires deputy editor

Mike Kessler has been named deputy editor of Entrepreneur magazine, according to a release.

Kessler spent 2008 hopping the country — and two other continents — as a freelance writer for several national magazines, including Details, Men’s Journal, BestLife and Outside. From 2006 to 2008, he was articles editor at 5280 (Denver’s city magazine), during which time he was selected as a finalist for a National Magazine Award in the Public Interest category.

He has also been a winner and finalist — as a writer and editor — in three separate categories at the City and Regional Magazine Awards. Kessler served as executive editor of Boulder, Colorado-based Skiing magazine, as a staff editor at Santa Fe, New Mexico-based Outside magazine, and as editor-in-chief of the award-winning quarterly, No Boundaries. (He also developed and co-wrote No Boundaries‘ T.V. component for the Fox Network in 2002.)

His writing has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Salon.com and the book Best American Magazine Writing 2008.

“Entrepreneur is working harder than ever to uncover innovative ideas and solutions for business owners,” says Amy Cosper, editor in chief, in a statement. “Mike’s investigative prowess and journalistic curiosity will deepen our ability to look at ideas in the news and society at large that both affect small businesses and offer new opportunities they may have otherwise overlooked.”