Top Editors Appointed to Lead Industry Standard's New York Bureau.

Business Editors

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 29, 2000

The Industry Standard Expands Print and Online Coverage

with National and International Recruits from Newsweek,

The Washington Post, Reuters, The Asian Wall Street Journal,

Brill's Content, and La Nacion

Standard Media International ("The Standard") announced that it has appointed Richard Turner as New York bureau chief and executive editor and Sharon Walsh as deputy New York bureau chief of The Industry Standard. These two key hires join a number of recent recruits who will further strengthen the burgeoning print magazine and its online counterpart, TheStandard.com.

Turner joins The Industry Standard from Newsweek, where he most recently served as the senior editor of the Society section, producing features on health, medicine, sports, religion, education and social issues. During his four-year tenure at Newsweek, Turner also wrote about media, business and technology. Prior to Newsweek, he was an editor-at-large for NEW YORK, where he penned the media column, and before that, served as a national reporter for The Wall Street Journal, covering the entertainment industry. Turner succeeds James Ledbetter, who was named editor-in-chief of The Industry Standard's European edition, which will launch in the fall.

Walsh comes to The Industry Standard from The Washington Post, where she was a financial correspondent in the New York bureau. Before that, as the Post's financial investigative reporter in Washington, she covered white-collar crime. Over the course of her career, Walsh has served as an assistant business editor for The Philadelphia Inquirer and as a news editor for U.S. News & World Report. She succeeds Bernhard Warner, who will be relocating to London to assume the position of senior editor for the European edition.

"The appointment of Richard Turner and Sharon Walsh, as well as the expansion of our national and international editorial staff, is indicative of our commitment to aggressively cover the global Internet Economy," said Industry Standard Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Weber. "It is the outstanding caliber, expertise and commitment of our journalists that sets us apart from the competition."

Turner's appointment is the latest in a series of major editorial hires. The Standard, which recently celebrated its two-year anniversary, has grown from an editorial staff at launch of 13 to more than 100 today, with bureaus in nine cities in the United States and abroad. The Standard's international staff now includes Bruno Giussani, a veteran European journalist who organized The Standard's recent conference in Barcelona, Spain, as European editor; Daniel Helft, a former Reuters correspondent and editor at La Nacion, as Latin American editor based in Buenos Aires; Michele M. Yamada, formerly of Reuters, as Tokyo correspondent; and Joanne Young-Lee, formerly of The Asian Wall Street Journal, as Hong Kong correspondent.

Other new members to The Industry Standard's team include: Hugh Garvey, formerly of The Village Voice, as senior editor of the Culture section; Dominic Gates as senior writer based in Seattle; Luke Mitchell, formerly of Random House, as senior editor of the "Intellectual Capital" section, and Eric Young, previously of the Sacramento Bee, as a staff writer on the business-to-business e-commerce beat. Jennifer Greenstein, Mark Roberti and Matthew Yeomans recently joined The Industry Standard's New York bureau as senior writers.

In addition, Melanie Haiken, formerly of San Francisco and Parenting magazines, has been named executive editor for The Industry Standard's Grok, a monthly special report publication, hitting newsstands this August. Steven Zeitchik, formerly of Publisher's Weekly, has been named newsletter editor, overseeing The Standard's 19 online newsletters. Polly Traylor has been named senior editor of the New Gig newsletter. And Thomas Goetz, formerly East Coast news director for The Industry Standard, will be relocating to San Francisco to assume the position of executive news editor.

Joining The Industry Standard:

Hugh Garvey, Senior Editor, Culture

Formerly an editor and writer at The Village Voice, Garvey has covered books, publishing, culture, lifestyle and food for publications including GQ, Details, Vibe, Travel & Leisure, the Utne Reader, Alternative Press, One World, Food Arts, Newsday and The Washington Post. He is a contributor to the forthcoming book the "Salon Reader's Guide to Contemporary Fiction."

Bruno Giussani, European Editor

Giussani recently produced The Standard's inaugural Global Internet Summit held in Barcelona, Spain. He currently writes an Internet column for The New York Times, and has been an award-winning political business reporter and editor with several newspapers and magazines in Europe. An entrepreneur who co-founded TiNet, one of the first Swiss Internet services companies, Giussani is a director of Internet strategy at the World Economic Forum and teaches at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.

Melanie Haiken, Executive Editor, The Industry Standard's Grok

Haiken has more than 10 years of editing experience both as the former managing editor of San Francisco magazine and as senior editor of Parenting magazine. Prior to The Industry Standard's Grok, she was an executive editor of BabyCenter.com, a subsidiary of Etoys. Haiken has also served as an investigative reporter, foreign correspondent, and music journalist.

Dominic Gates, Senior Writer

Prior to joining The Industry Standard, Gates was a writer and editor with Directions on Microsoft, a research group that monitors Microsoft. Since moving to Seattle in 1992, he has written largely about the Pacific Northwest, eventually focusing on the emergence of the Internet Economy in Seattle, particularly the role of Microsoft.

Jennifer Greenstein, Senior Writer

Jennifer Greenstein covers media and publishing for The Industry Standard. Prior to this position, she was a senior writer at Brill's Content. Greenstein has a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern and bachelor's degree from Vassar College.

Daniel Helft, Latin American Editor

Based in Buenos Aires, Helft most recently spent three years as a business editor at Argentina's La Nacion. Previously, he was a Latin American correspondent for Reuters covering economic and political issues. He has also worked as the Argentine correspondent for CNN World Report, where he was cited for his 1994 coverage of the bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.

Joanne Lee-Young, Hong Kong Correspondent

For two years prior to joining The Industry Standard, Lee-Young was a staff writer in the Hong Kong bureau of The Asian Wall Street Journal covering regional consumer and lifestyle trends. Prior to AWSJ, she reported social and political stories for the China desk at the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong and was a news assistant at The Globe and Mail (Toronto) bureau in Beijing.

Luke Mitchell, Senior Editor

Mitchell edits The Industry Standard's "Intellectual Capital" section. Previously, he was an editor at Random House and a freelance writer for, among other publications, U.S. News & World Report and The Washington Post. He graduated from the University of Kansas in 1992 with a degree in journalism.

Mark Roberti, Senior Writer

Roberti comes to The Industry Standard from InformationWeek, where he ran the news operation. He spent eight years working as a journalist in Asia for Asian Finance, Asia Inc. and Asiaweek, a Time publication. Roberti covers business-to-business e-commerce for The Industry Standard.

Polly Traylor, Senior Editor

With seven years' experience in business and high tech reporting, Traylor is currently senior editor for The Standard's online newsletter "New Gig". She came to The Standard from CIO magazine where she was a senior editor. Prior to CIO, Traylor was senior editor at McGraw Hill's Healthcare Informatics, a magazine for health care executives.

Michele M. Yamada, Tokyo Correspondent

Yamada covers the Internet Economy in Japan and non-Chinese speaking regions of Asia. Prior to The Industry Standard, she worked for Reuters in Washington, D.C., covering daily business news for its economics desk. She also worked for the Californian in Salinas, Calif., The News & Record in Greensboro, N.C. and the Washington, D.C. bureau of a Japanese national daily, Yomiuri Shimbun.

Matthew Yeomans, Senior Writer

Prior to joining The Standard's online team, Yeomans was a freelance feature writer whose work has been published in Doubletake, Details, GQ, Conde Nast Traveler, as well as in Slate and Salon. Prior to that, he was the international editor for The Village Voice.

Eric Young, Staff Writer

Eric Young joins The Industry Standard from The Sacramento Bee, where he covered technology and the Internet from the newspaper's San Francisco bureau. Prior to the Bee, Young was a reporter at The Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune, covering various beats including business, law enforcement, local government and general assignment. Young's beat at The Standard is business-to-business e-commerce.

Steven Zeitchik, Newsletter Editor

Before coming to The Standard, Zeitchik was an editor at Publishers Weekly in New York, where he helped shape an e-newsletter and wrote news and features for the magazine. He has written for a number of online and offline publications, including Salon, The Nation and Conde Nast Traveler.

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