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