Talking Biz News has confirmed two more depatures from BusinessWeek, which was acquired in December by Bloomberg LP and has since been undergoing a major overhaul.
Kimberly Weisul, the former editor of BusinessWeek SmallBiz, left on Monday. The quarterly publication launched in June 2004. In addition, Weisul was the small business editor for BusinessWeek. Prior to this position, Weisul was department editor for the UpFront section of the magazine.
Under Weisul’s leadership, SmallBiz won the 2005 Jesse H. Neal Award for Best Startup Publication and received a Silver Award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors in the same category.
Arlene Weintraub, a senior writer for the science and technology section, left last week. Weintraub joined the magazine in 2000 in the Los Angeles bureau. covering info tech and biotech, and moved to the Sci-Tech team in New York in 2004.
She produced a string of cover stories, elegant features and investigative pieces. Her 2006 cover story “Forever Young” won awards from the New York Press Club and Association of Health Care Journalists. She received an American Society of Business Publication Editors Gold Award in feature writing for the 2004 cover story “I Can’t Sleep.”
Weintraub is currently working on a book and plans to freelance.
The cuts in the past week, as well as those late last year, have virtually eradicated the reporting staff devoted solely to the magazine. There are now three writers — Peter Coy, Susan Berfield and Roben Farzad — left in New York for the print magazine, exclusing the online staff, according to current and former staffers. Worldwide, the number is 18 or 19, depending on whether you count a part-time contractor in Israel.
