Xconomy moves into the New York market

Xconomy, a business and technology news service in major cities across the country, announced Monday that it will enter the New York market.

Its coverage will be led by Arlene Weintraub, a former BusinessWeek staffer.

Editor in chief Robert Buderi writes, “While New York is of course full of media companies and great reporters and editors, we nevertheless believe Xconomy fills a special void. Not only are our daily feature stories deeper than the norm, we don’t limit ourselves to information technology, the way most tech outlets do. We cover biotech and life sciences like few others. We cover cleantech. In short, we cover anything high-tech, because that is where growth in the economy is coming from—and new growth often arises from the boundaries or intersections of these traditional fields.

“Xconomy New York will be led by author and former BusinessWeek senior writer Arlene Weintraub. Arlene, who has won awards from the New York Press Club, the Association of Health Care Journalists, and the American Society of Business Publication Editors, among others, first joined BusinessWeek to cover the tech scene in Los Angeles during the Internet bubble days. Then she moved to the New York office, where she quickly established herself as one of the country’s leading writers on pharma, healthcare, and life sciences. Her book about the anti-aging industry, Selling the Fountain of Youth, was published by Basic Books last September. We are extremely fortunate to have Arlene join us fresh off her book tour.

“Arlene, of course, will be supported by the rest of Xconomy’s world-class staff, all of whom will be contributing to Xconomy New York. (Please read more about our team, as well as our principles and ethics, on our About page.)”

Read more here. Xconomy, which is based in Boston, also has bureaus in Detroit, San Diego, San Francisco and Seattle.