Newark biz editor leaving for AP

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE

Kevin Shinkle, the business editor at the Newark Star-Ledger, is leaving the paper and taking a job as an assistant business editor at the Associated Press.

Shinkle’s last day at the paper will be Nov. 12. He will start at the AP on Nov. 17. Shinkle declined further comment.

Shinkle became the business editor at the paper at the end of last year. He is taking the buyout offer from the Star-Ledger.

At the AP, Shinkle will be assistant biz editor for money, in charge of four teams: financial/Wall Street, real estate, personal finance and money and markets.

Shinkle had been the deputy business editor for six and a half years, but had also worked in the paperâ€™s sports department.

Shinkle previously worked at Bloomberg News and at the Tampa Tribune. He also worked at the Chapel Hill News in North Carolina. He’s a graduate of Hillsdale College.

T.J. Foderaro, a deputy business editor at the paper, left recently. He is joining Harrison Scott Publications.

DISCLOSURE: I worked with Shinkle at the Tampa paper and at Bloomberg News.

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Wenalway says:
October 31, 2008 at 5:37 pm
It warms my heart that in difficult times, someone can get a buyout while taking another job.
Also, will he join with the rest of AP's crack(ed) business staff in sending out plenty of static building photos to go with the business stories? After all, nothing illustrates big business like the photo of a building!
Wayne Myers says:
October 31, 2008 at 9:42 pm
"Buyout?" What's that? I'm "blessed" to work at a small paper in a profession that acts as if its talented professionals are lucky to be paid anything at all. Take a look at the small papers. We're starving here.