Categories: OLD Media Moves

Wieffering returns to Star-Tribune as business columnist

Eric Wieffering, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune business editor who left the paper last year for a job in public relations, is now returning to the paper to become its business columnist, according to a memo obtained by MinnPost.com’s David Brauer.

The memo from editor Nancy Barnes states, “He is uniquely qualified to take on this important new role as part of our drive to make our already formidable business coverage better than ever.

“Before he left a year ago to work as a senior account executive at Haberman and Associates, a marketing and communications firm in Minneapolis, Eric had long been a newsroom leader as much through his skill and spirit as the titles he held.

“Over 11 distinguished years at the Star Tribune, Eric was an enterprise reporter, team leader, deputy editor, then the Assistant Managing Editor for Business. In his last year here, he led both our Business and Metro staffs. During his tenure leading Business, the section was named one of the best in the country by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers in 2008.”

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