New BusinessWeek executive editor to be named Monday

Ellen Pollock, a long-time reporter and editor at The Wall Street Journal, is expected to be named executive editor of BusinessWeek on Monday, writes Richard Perez-Pena of The New York Times.

She will replace John Byrne, who became the top editor at BusinessWeek Online last month.

Perez-Pena wrote, “For five years, Ms. Pollock has worked on The Journal’s front page, most recently as deputy Page 1 editor, often handling the distinctive long-form articles that are a signature of The Journal. In that time, she has worked on two Pulitzer Prize-winning series — one in 2003 on corporate scandals and another in 2005 on people living with cancer.

“Ms. Pollock, 52, started at The Journal in 1989 as an editor for legal affairs, and then spent years as a senior writer covering, among other things, the Whitewater real estate scandal. Before joining The Journal, she was the editor of Manhattan Lawyer magazine, and a writer at The American Lawyer magazine.

“On July 16, she will become the second-ranking editor at BusinessWeek, a leader in the crowded business magazine field. It is a weekly with domestic circulation of more than 900,000, similar to its competitors, Forbes and Fortune, which publish about half as often, and well ahead of The Economist. BusinessWeek is planning a redesign this fall.”

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