TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE
Here are more of the staffing decisions made at BusinessWeek as the magazine prepares to be sold to Bloomberg LP early next month.
Those staying have been offered jobs at the magazine or at Bloomberg News. Those leaving were offered severance:
STAYING
1. Suzanne Woolley: A senior editor who covers personal finance, Woolley is in her second stint at BusinessWeek. She also was a senior writer and a senior editor at Money magazine.
2. David Welch: The Detroit bureau chief will be writing for BusinessWeek going forward and contributing to Bloomberg’s auto coverage. He previously was the auto writer for the Detroit News.
3. Burt Helm: The marketing department editor was previously with BusinessWeek Online. He has also worked at Inc. and Maxim, and is a Yale University graduate.
4. David Rocks: He has been the senior editor for global news, overseeing the foreign correspondents. Prior to taking his current job, Rocks was Asia editor for four years, leading coverage in Asia and writing his own stories about technology, politics, design trends, and more.
5. David Henry: Henry is a senior writer in the finance section and a former associate editor at the magazine. He joined the magazine in 2001 from USA Today, where he was the Wall Street columnist.
6. Michelle Conlin: Another senior writer, Conlin covers the “working life,” a beat that includes the culture of work, social issues, work-life trends, and the labor market.
7. Peter Elstrom: An assistant managing editor at the magazine, he oversees tech coverage. Elstrom was also once the news director for BusinessWeek.com, and he has been a senior editor, associate editor and senior writer.
8. Spencer Ante: An associate editor who joined the magazine in 2000 from TheStreet.com. Ante has also been computers department editor and is the author of “Creative Capital.”
9. Tara Kalwarski: Kalwarski is department editor of the Numbers section and writes for the Personal Business section too. She was assistant managing editor at Financial Week.
10. Arik Hesseldahl: A technology writer for BusinessWeek.com. In addition, he writes the Byte of the Apple column. Previously, Hesseldahl was a senior editor and technology columnist at Forbes.com.
11. John Carey: A senior correspondent in the Washington bureau who has covered science, technology, medicine, health, and the environment for the magazine since 1989. Carey was an editor for The Scientist and worked at Newsweek.
12. Amy Feldman: An associate editor at the magazine. She is an award-winning writer and journalist with more than 15 years’ experience writing about business.
13. Ben Levisohn: Moving to Bloomberg News operations. He is a staff editor in the finance department covering finance and personal finance. He is a CUNY Graduate School of Journalism alum.
GOING
1. Pete Engardio: A well-regarded senior writer who has been working for the magazine since 1985. In 1996, he moved to New York and was editor of the Asian edition from 1998 to 2001. In 2003, Engardio received George Polk, Loeb, and Sigma Delta Chi awards. He was part of a team that won a 1998 Overseas Press Club Award.
Engardio says he has no firm plans, but he would like to continue writing about the “changing global economy and what it means for business.” He can be reached at pengardio@yahoo.com.
2. Dean Foust: The Atlanta bureau chief for the past 11 years. Previously, he covered the Federal Reserve from the magazine’s Washington bureau and continues to contribute regularly to coverage of economics and finance.
3. Amy Barrett: A senior correspondent with BusinessWeekSmallBiz, Barrett had also been the Philadelphia bureau chief for nine years, covering pharmaceuticals. She has been with the magazine since 1992.
4. Jena McGregor: The management department editor has been with BusinessWeek since 2005. She previously worked for Fast Company and Smart Money.
5. Hardy Green: Green is an associate editor at the magazine, a title he has had since 2003. He previously was books editor and a copy editor with the weekly.
6. James Cooper: Cooper is a senior editor and senior economist and writes the influential Business Outlook column. Cooper joined the magazine in 1980 and was named Business Outlook Editor in 1988, before rising to his present position in 2001.
7. Kathy Moore: A senior photo editor who has been at the magazine for more than 20 years. She was the photo editor for BusinessWeek SmallBiz since it started.
8. Peter Carbonara: A senior writer in the finance department who has been with the magazine for little more than a year. Carbonara says, “I’m a a 48-year-old feature writer and editor with 25 years of experience, including stints at Fortune, Money, The American Lawyer, Spin and public television. I am leaving journalism to make a living as a big band rhythm guitarist. I’m also available for house painting and yard work.”
Carbonara can be reached at petercarbonara@verizon.net.
See here for earlier coverage of those staying and going.
