Grueskin named executive editor of training for Bloomberg

Bloomberg News editor in chief Matthew Winkler sent out the following message to the staff on Wednesday:

As part of our effort to broaden our global audience through multiple platforms, we are thrilled Bill Grueskin will join Bloomberg as executive editor for training.  Working with Paul Addison and the training team, Bill will help ensure that Bloomberg journalism in all its forms engages our audiences, from terminal to the Web and mobile, as the indispensable provider of news to the global business community.

Bill has been dean of academic affairs at the Columbia Journalism School for the past six years and will continue to be on the faculty.  He is credited with overseeing the most dramatic transformation of the program’s curriculum in decades. The overhaul means students now have the flexibility to focus on topics ranging from data visualization to long-form digital journalism and interactive news design, in addition to traditional classes in reporting and writing. The changes recognize that the nature of the work journalists do requires a deeper relationship between journalists and audiences.

In 2011, Bill co-authored a report called “The Story So Far: What We Know About the Business of Digital Journalism,” which examined, among other things, online traffic and user engagement patterns.  (Read it here: http://bit.ly/1jPfbm3)

Bill previously spent 13 years at the Wall Street Journal, where he began as a Page One editor in 1995. After serving several roles, he became managing editor of WSJ Online in 2001. During his tenure, the number of Journal online subscribers doubled to more than one million. He was then promoted to deputy managing editor/news in 2007 before he went to Columbia.

Bill’s journalism career started in 1975 in Rome. He then worked at several newspapers, including the Baltimore News American and the Tampa Tribune. He was hired by the Miami Herald in 1985 where he became city editor and helped coordinate the paper’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of Hurricane Andrew.

Please join us in welcoming Bill to Bloomberg News. He will start June 9 and report to Tim Quinson.