Experience

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  Yahoo Finance

  • New York City

  • Editorial Manager

    • Aug 2022 - Present
    • New York City

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  Newsweek/High Water Press

  • Greater New York City Area

  • Sr. Editor-at-Large, Newsweek/Co-founder High Water Press

    • Feb 2015 - Dec 2022
    • Greater New York City Area

    Co-owner: High Water Press. Specializing in op-eds, book consulting and editorial project management. Clients include, and have included, Money magazine, Bloomberg markets, HPE, HarperCollins, and Forbes.com. Prior to my latest adventures I was freelancing and working as an editor at Reuters in New York. And then there was the deputy editor's gig at Fortune, the senior editor's gig at Newsweek, the reporter's gig at the Wall Street Journal and so on and so on…..

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  Inc. magazine and freelance editor/writer.

  • New York Area

  • Contributing Editor (Inc.)

    • 2013 - 2014
    • New York Area

    I worked, very enjoyably I might add, as a part-time feature editor at Inc. magazine. Also helped with recruiting of editorial staff from time-to-time. What did I do outside the walls of Inc.? Editorial consulting and editing (working with folks who had book projects), ghostwriting, speech-writing and the occasional white paper. Clients included McKinsey, UPS, Guardian Life, Gibbs & Soell, and the Harvard Business School.

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  Fortune Magazine

  • New York

  • Deputy Editor

    • 2004 - 2013
    • New York

    Where do I start? Involved with the day-to-day operation of Fortune magazine from story idea generation to budgeting to managing the staff. A few years back, I won a prestigious Loeb award for my work as an editor. I also helped assign additional features (audio, video, interactive graphics) for Fortune's iPad edition and wrote the occasional quirky feature.

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  Editor, Fortune Small Business

  • Greater New York City Area

  • Editor

    • 1997 - 2004
    • Greater New York City Area

    CV Gap Alert: Prior to FSB, I was an assistant managing editor of Fortune. I worked with the magazine's investigative reporters and, from time to time, edited the investing section. I also created a special small business section for Fortune.

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  Newsweek

  • Greater New York City Area

  • Sr. Editor

    • 1991 - 1996
    • Greater New York City Area

    In charge of the magazine's business section during its heyday. My staff included the legendary columnists/journalists Jane Bryant Quinn, Allan Sloan and Robert Samuelson. We won a few Loeb awards in our time together.

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  The Boston Globe

  • Greater Boston Area

  • Editor, Sunday Business Section

    • 1988 - 1991
    • Greater Boston Area

    Hired as a personal finance columnist, I was promoted to overhaul and edit the Sunday Business Section. Later worked as the assistant editor in charge of the daily business section.

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  The Wall Street Journal

  • Greater New York City Area

  • Reporter

    • 1984 - 1988
    • Greater New York City Area

    Reporter on the retailing beat and later the technology beat covering IBM. I may have introduced Walmart and Sam Walton to the world, but I'm not entirely sure of that.