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Top Bloomberg Pursuits editors leave abruptly amid shakeup

BLOOMBERG PURSUITS MAGAZINE - The End Of Chocloate cover (Holiday 2014 issue)BLOOMBERG PURSUITS MAGAZINE - The End Of Chocloate cover (Holiday 2014 issue)The two top editors at Bloomberg Pursuits, the luxury personal finance magazine from Bloomberg LP, left the company on Wednesday.

Ted Moncrieff, the editor of Bloomberg Pursuits, had joined the magazine in December 2012. He  worked for Condé Nast Traveler for 15 years, including four years as executive editor. Following that, he was executive editor at Newsweek, and then executive editor and content strategist at W magazine. Moncrieff was most recently the editorial director of Condé Nast Ideactive, the company’s custom publishing division.

Stan Parish, the deputy editor of Bloomberg Pursuits, had joined the magazine earlier this year. He had been associate editor of GQ and features editor at Departures.

A company spokesman confirmed to Talking Biz news that Moncrieff and Parish “left the company” and that “Bloomberg Pursuits magazine will be run editorially by the Bloomberg Media team under Chief Content Officer Josh Tyrangiel beginning with the spring 2015 issue. It will continue to be published quarterly and distributed to Bloomberg terminal subscribers around the globe.”

Tyrangiel is also the editor of Bloomberg Businessweek.

Emma Winchurch-Beale will continue to be Bloomberg Pursuits’ publisher, based out of London.

Bloomberg Pursuits has a rate base of 375,000 copies. Readership is 89 percent male, with an average age of 44 and an average household income of $490,371.

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.

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