Categories: OLD Media Moves

New Yorker launches business blog called Currency

Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke of The New York Observer writes about Currency, the new business blog launched Thursday by the New Yorker.

Bloomgarden-Smoke writes, “The blog is part of The Business Pages the magazine’s digital business section that launched in February.

“The blog has lined up New Yorker writers John Cassidy, James Surowiecki, Tad Friend, Ken Auletta, Dana Goodyear, Connie Bruck, and George Packer to contribute to the site. Currency launched this morning with a story by Mr. Friend (with the bloggy title ‘Is Elon Musk’s Hyperloop a Pipedream’), a post by Mr. Surowiecki on shareholder activism and a collection of New Yorker profiles of business icons from the past 80 years (those archives do come in handy!).

“Currency is the latest in The New Yorker‘s push to expand NewYorker.com, which is edited by Nicholas Thompson. Matt Buchanan was hired in February to launch the site’s science and tech section, and Michael Agger and Sasha Weiss were hired earlier this year to expand the site’s cultural coverage.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.