Categories: OLD Media Moves

NYTimes media writer Siklos leaving for Fortune

Keith Kelly of The New York Post writes Wednesday that New York Times media writer Richard Siklos, who has been covering the News Corp./Dow Jones & Co. negotiations, is leaving the paper to work for Fortune magazine.

Kelly wrote, “Siklos, who has been at the Times for two years, writes the Media Frenzy column for the Sunday business section of the Times and has been chronicling the Conrad Black fraud trial in Chicago.

“The Canadian-born Siklos is one of the only people who can boast not one, but two biographies of Black under his belt. The last revision, ‘Shades of Black: Conrad Black – His Rise and Fall,’ was out from the McCelland & Stewart imprint of Random House in Canada in 2004.

“Siklos was the editor-in-chief of the short-lived Inside magazine for Powerful Media, the Kurt Andersen-led media reporting enterprise that burst along with the Internet bubble.”

Read more here. Kelly also reports that BusinessWeek’s Jessi Hempel and TheStreet.com’s Peter Eavis are also joining Fortune.

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.