Categories: OLD Media Moves

Wartzman to write column for BusinessWeek.com

Rick Wartzman, the former business editor of the Los Angeles Times, has agreed to start writing a bi-monthly column for BusinessWeek.com, according to an announcement.

The magazine’s new online focus is management issues. After its debut Friday the column will run on BusinessWeek’s website every other Monday. It will also appear occasionally in the print edition of the magazine.

The column will tie the teachings of Peter F. Drucker, who is widely considered the father of modern management, to events in the news. It will also, from time to time, highlight the work of scholars and practitioners in all sectors—business, government and the nonprofit world—who have been influenced by Drucker.

“This is a wonderful opportunity for us to fulfill our basic mission: to take Peter Drucker’s ideas and ideals to new audiences,” Wartzman said. “The fact that BusinessWeek has chosen to feature ‘The Drucker Difference’ underscores just how relevant his thinking remains today.”

Before being named director of the Drucker Institute last year, Wartzman had a 20-year career in journalism, including stints as a reporter, editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times. He is also the co-author of the bestselling book “The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire” and is now completing a new book, “Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of The Grapes of Wrath.” He left the Times in 2006.

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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