When a journalist turned to business news

J. Jennings Moss, the editor of the Upstart Business Journal, writes about quitting his job as managing editor of FoxNews.com to be with his dying father a decade ago and why he decided to become a business journalist.

Moss writes, “From the beginning of my journalism career, my dad tried to get me to a business journalist. He was the king of the backup plan, and given his belief that the news business was a competitive one, he thought I should have one in my chosen career. To him, business reporters would always be in demand. For years, I wasn’t interested. I wanted to cover politics. I wanted to cover institutions of power. I wanted to cover big moments of change.

“It wasn’t until after he was gone that I finally listened. Like a great awakening, I opened up to what business journalism was really all about — creative, ambitious, driven, fascinating people. They fuel stories about success and failure, strategy and execution, culture and influence.

“I ended up signing up with a fledgling business news publication shortly before the onset of the Great Recession. That job directly led to the one I have today, as editor of both the Upstart Business Journal and the New York Business Journal. In a strange twist, from my Manhattan office window at Avenue of the Americas and 46th Street, I look directly at the News Corporation building a block away, the place where I worked a decade ago.”

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