Ms. Pollock — whose husband, Barry Meier, was a member of the reporting team from The Times
that won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting last week — worked for 18 years at The Wall Street Journal as a reporter and editor before joining Businessweek in 2007 as executive editor.
New York Times Names Former Businessweek Editor to Head Business Section -
By SYDNEY EMBERAPRIL 18, 2017
continued to shake up its newsroom leadership on Tuesday by naming Ellen Pollock, formerly the
editor in chief of Bloomberg Businessweek, the next top editor of its business section.
In announcing the appointment, Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The Times, called Ms. Pollock “an accomplished editor with the experience
and talent needed to broaden our already ambitious business coverage.”
Businessweek won a National Magazine Award for general excellence in 2012 and was a finalist in three categories this year.
Rebecca Blumenstein, deputy editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal, was recently named a deputy managing editor,
and a number of other editors have been elevated to the top leadership ranks.
The move comes just weeks after the company announced
that Dean Murphy, who had led the section, known as Business Day, for the last four years, was being promoted to associate editor.