Nocera a candidate to be next editor of NYT magazine?

Chris Rovzar of New York magazine reports that Joe Nocera, a business section columnist for the New York Times, is a potential candidate to be the next editor of the newspaper’s magazine.

Rovzar writes, “According to someone familiar with the situation, Times business columnist Joe Nocera has always had his eye on the magazine job. A business columnist for the paper and contributor to the magazine, Nocera previously spent a decade at Fortune, where he rose from contributing writer to editorial director. He also spent time at Newsweek, Texas Monthly, and Washington Monthly (where James Bennet also started out).”

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Here’s more background on Nocera: Before joining The Times, Nocera spent 10 years at Fortune Magazine, where he held a variety of positions, including contributing writer, editor-at-large and executive editor. His last position at Fortune was editorial director. He was the Profit Motive columnist at GQ until May 1995, and he wrote the same column for Esquire from 1988 until 1990. In the 1980’s, he served as a contributing editor at Newsweek, as executive editor of New England Monthly and as senior editor at Texas Monthly. From 1978 until 1980, he was an editor at The Washington Monthly.

Nocera’s Saturday column, “Talking Business,” ranges widely over the world of business, covering everything from Home Depot’s annual meeting to Boeing’s comeback to his off-beat musings about his broken iPod. Slate magazine says that his column “demystifies the world of business with original thinking, brainy reporting and the ability to see around corners.”