Tuesday, April 30, 2013

U.S. News & World Report Profitable Again

Brian Kelly worked as a business journalist in Chicago, where he saw declining advertising decimate the paper he worked at, the Chicago Sun-Times, and strangle the Chicago Daily News. 
He saw a similar occurrence in Washington, where he presided over Regardie’s monthly business magazine from its inch-thick heyday in the 1980s to its famous flame-out during the early-1990s real estate bust. 
So after Kelly — a former editor at The Washington Post — ascended to the top spot at money-losing weekly news magazine U.S. News & World Report in April 2007, he had one thought:
Not on my watch.