SKILLS
Editor and reporter with broad background in business, financial,
and economic journalism for professional and consumer audiences.
Experienced in digital and traditional print formats.
EXPERIENCE
July 2022-August 2024
Forbes
•Oversaw daily cryptocurrency coverage, including the serial bankruptcies that constituted crypto winter.
•Wrote and edited investing articles.
•Wrote weekly newsletter summarizing Forbes cryptocurrency/blockchain coverage.
•Provided research assistance to reporters using the Bloomberg terminal.
July 2009-April 2022
Bloomberg
Editor
Bloomberg Intelligence (February 2016-April 2022)
• Edited equity, economic, commodity, and credit analysis and
strategy pieces targeted to users of Bloomberg terminals. The
material is similar to sell-side research but without specific
buy/hold/sell recommendations. I edited for consistency and
internal logic as well as style, grammar and spelling.
• Wrote blog posts based on strategy and energy items.
• Wrote daily summaries of important industry research.
Bloomberg News (July 2009-February 2016)
• Edited daily Corporate Finance column, which examined
developments of a specific company from a balance-sheet point of
view.
• Oversaw time-sensitive coverage of new bond issues and edited
other stories about the U.S. fixed-income market.
February 2003-April 2004 and June 2006-March 2009
Forbes
New York
Senior Editor.
• Ran daily news operation for Forbes.com website, with direct
reports from 18 editors and reporters in New York, London, Hong
Kong, and Bombay. (June 2006-2009). Frequently appeared on
television and radio as commentator, including CNBC, MSNBC, ABC,
and Fox, as well as Forbes.com videos.
• Edited investing and statistical items for Forbes magazine.
(November 2003-April 2004).
• Edited capital markets and investing section for Forbes Global magazine
[defunct]. Produced annual "A-List" and "Best Under a Billion"
special issues, including screening and selecting the companies.
April 2004 - June 2006
SmartMoney
New York
Senior Editor
Edited the StreetSmart section, which comprised timely investment
articles, for monthly investing magazine.
April 1988 - October 2002
International Herald Tribune [Defunct]
Paris and New York
Editor/Reporter/TV Correspondent
• New York correspondent (January 1997-August 2002). Wrote
breaking daily news articles and features, primarily about
business and financial markets. Previously covered technology from
Paris, including a series of interviews with industry leaders such
as Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Andrew Grove, and Linus Torvolds.
• Editor, the Money Report. Edited weekly personal-finance section
of daily newspaper (September 1996-April 2002). Oversaw
international network of freelance writers that produced section
aimed at affluent international investors. Instituted quarterly
and annual reviews to track advice given, created annual
roundtable with high-profile money managers, devised coverage of
alternative investments including wine, racing horses,
unadvertised mutual funds, recreational vehicles, and water.
Full-time position concurrent with full-time position as New York
correspondent.
• Television correspondent (June 1999-October 2002). Did
five-minute broadcast wrapping up U.S. financial news for
affiliated project in Italy.
• Night business editor (August 1992-August 1996). Oversaw editing
and production of daily business and finance coverage, managing a
five-person copy desk. Responsible for final content including
late-breaking news. Frequently substituted for business editor and
deputy (approximately 33% of the time), assigning articles and
designing pages.
• Copy editor (April 1988-July 1990 and August 1991-August 1992).
July 1990 - August 1991
Bond World [defunct]
New York
Senior Editor
One of four editors on a start-up publication for the credit
markets produced by the American Banker/Bond Buyer and other
divisions of Thomson Financial. Wrote weekly column about credit
ratings. On one-year leave from International Herald Tribune
(above).
January 1986 - February 1988
United Press International
New York
Deputy Business Editor/Acting Business Editor
Hired as the slot editor (No. 2 position) on the business desk of
international wire service. Later promoted to deputy business
editor and was acting business editor in the absence of a
permanent hire. Oversaw about 100 articles a day from 10 business
reporters plus hundreds of general assignment reporters.
May 1983 - September 1985
The Bond Buyer
New York
Chief Copy Editor
Hired as a copy editor, promoted to copy chief (under more senior
chief copy editor from sister publication the American Banker),
then chief copy editor. Supervised staff of six editors working on
articles for a daily and a weekly newspaper about the credit
markets, economics, and local, state and federal government.
December 1982-April 1983
Meridian Star
Meridian, Mississippi
Business Editor
Wrote business and financial articles and edited business page.
Assigned articles to freelance writers and staff reporters. Also
wrote general-assignment articles.
August 1980-November 1982
New York Times
New York
News clerk Hired as a copy boy, promoted to news clerk, then was
graphics editor for two annual economic publications. Wrote daily
and feature articles for business section.
EDUCATION
Columbia College
New York
• Bachelor's degree, concentration in history, awarded October
1980.
• Managing editor, production manager and vice president of
independent Columbia Daily
Spectator in sixth and seventh semesters; various
reporting, editing, and photography positions prior to that.
• Interviewed Russian dissident Andrei Sakharov in Moscow for
seven Ivy League dailies.
• Took courses at Graduate School of Journalism in Mass
Communication, News Editing, Photojournalism, and Science
Reporting.
OTHER
The Black Rock Beacon
Black Rock City, Nevada
Founder, first president and first editor of the Black Rock
Beacon, independent, not-for-profit newspaper and website for the
Burning Man Community (2005-2010). Acting editor in several
subsequent years following death of successor. Board member
(2005-present).
Editor of the Black Rock
Gazette [defunct], the official daily newspaper of
Burning Man in 2002, and a managing editor in 2000, 2001, 2003 and
2004.
Languages: English and intermediate French
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