Memo from Stephen J. Adler Concerning Staff Departures
Colleagues:
I'm sad to report that both Frank Comes and Mary Kuntz have signed on with McKinsey Quarterly as editors there, joining a team led by Rik Kirkland, who recently became director of publishing at McKinsey & Co.
Frank leaves us after 31 stellar years. He joined BW as a correspondent in the Pittsburgh bureau, working his way through the Minneapolis, Toronto, and Paris offices before landing in New York in 1989 as international-edition editor. He was senior editor/international before becoming assistant managing editor in 1999. Over the years, he has distinguished himself as a consummate team player, a thoughtful shaper of ideas and copy, and a trusted mentor to dozens of staffers.
Mary joined us as marketing editor in 1995, having previously worked at Newsday and Forbes. She later served with distinction as senior editor for corporate coverage and as an assistant managing editor overseeing finance, corporations and personal business. Most recently, she was content chief for corporate, ideas, and workplace coverage in print and online. Her strong story sense and masterful management of complex projects such as the BW50 made everyone else's job all that much easier.
We have all benefited from their deep commitment to BusinessWeek and to the BusinessWeek culture, and we will miss them both. Please join me in wishing them well at McKinsey.
Best regards, Steve
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"...we live in your world -- one of intense time pressure, global competition, information overload, and relentless change," Adler writes in his Editor's Memo. "And like you, we can't stand still."Adler told The New York Times: "We're seeing a reader who is much busier than ever. But if you really add tremendous value to the reader, and they're deeply engaged in the material, the broad premise is: that's good for everyone -- the consumer and the advertiser."
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At Age 42, Stephen J. Adler Was Named An Assistant Managing Editor for the WSJ
[This article originally appeared in the January 1998 edition of TJFR Business News Reporter, Vol. 11 No. 11]
Stephen J. Adler has been named an assistant managing editor of The
Wall Street Journal. The former deputy Page One editor does not
replace anyone, but rather becomes the Journal’s fourth a.m.e. — a
position one notch below that of the paper’s two deputy managing
editors.
Mr. Adler, 42, has been with the Journal for nearly 10 years and has
spent the last few years focusing on high-profile investigative
pieces, first as investigative projects editor and, since last
January, as deputy Page One editor.
He was the editor of the Journal’s 1996 Pulitzer Prize-winning
coverage of the tobacco industry, written by Alix M. Freedman; and
was also in charge of groundbreaking stories on emerging AIDS
therapies and the Page One piece on the death of basketball star
Reggie Lewis.