NYTimes assistant biz editor taking buyout

Jack Lynch, an assistant business editor at The New York Times, has accepted the newspaper’s buyout offer and will be leaving the business news desk later this month.

In an email to Talking Biz News, Lynch writes:

I have no firm plans so far, but want to recharge myself after nearly 28 years at the Times, most of them in Business Day. I would like to stay in business journalism and may consider other opportunities as they arise.

I moved over to business journalism from general news around 1980, when I was at the old San Francisco Examiner, becoming a business reporter and then a business editor before becoming involved in the start-up of Investor’s Daily (now Investor’s Business Daily). At the time, I figured that business news as a whole was emerging as a bigger story in the news media. I had no idea how big a story business news would soon become. It has been an exciting and surprising time.

I leave Business Day knowing I worked with some of the best business reporters and editors in journalism. I will miss these talented people.

Lynch is a University of South Florida graduate. He also worked at Adweek and as business editor of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner.