Securities Industry News Names New Editor-in-Chief
July 20, 2009
You may have noticed a new name at the top of the masthead--Tom Steinert-Threlkeld. Tom joined Securities Industry News at the beginning of the month as the publication's editor-in-chief.
Tom is one of the top business journalists in the country. He most certainly will raise the editorial quality of Securities Industry News in print and online to new heights.
He most recently served as editorial director of two Reed Business Information publications--Broadcasting & Cable and Multichannel News--where he invigorated the print editions and Web sites of each of those two outstanding brands.
Prior to Reed, he was vice president of the Enterprise Group of Ziff Davis Media, where he founded Baseline magazine. Within four years, he made it a finalist for General Excellence in the Pulitzer Prizes of the magazine world, the National Magazine Awards, presented annually by the American Society of Magazine Editors. Baseline also won the Grand Neal Award, one of the most prestigious honors in business journalism
Before launching Baseline, Tom oversaw the online editorial operations for Ziff Davis. He founded ZD Inter@ctive Investor (one of the first investor news sites) and created one of the first sector indices, the Inter@ctive Week Internet Index, against which warrants were traded on the American Stock Exchange. The Index also served in the 1990s as a barometer for health of the embryonic Internet industry.
He started his journalism career in Texas as an award-winning business journalist for the Dallas Morning News and Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He's a graduate of the Harvard Business School and the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
But that's his past.
Tom takes over Securities Industry News at one of the most interesting times ever experienced by the Street. Tom will continue our mission--to cover how Wall Street operates--but hone our editorial coverage to what's most important to our readers now.
He is committed to keeping the publication the news leader in buy-side, sell-side, and exchange coverage--with even more resources being devoted to our daily online news gathering operations.
And he will make sure we deliver the latest trends, expert insight, and the most in-depth news analysis of how Wall Street aligns its business and technology strategies.
One of the ways Securities Industry News will do that is with deep-dive case studies into how some of Wall Street's leading companies are using technology--both trading technology and information technology--to achieve strategic objectives.
"Our focus will be on explaining how different traders and companies use the same tools to different strategic purpose. We will always focus on what the business aim and benefit is--and how different trading, risk assessment and operational techniques achieve or fail to achieve them," he says. "We will peel back layers of opacity for the benefit of securities professionals, public markets, and, by extension, the economic health of this nation."
Tom is working on ways to greatly improve how Securities Industry News serves its readers. I'm sure he'll detail those plans shortly in this space.
On a personal note, I first met Tom a little more than 10 years ago when we both were employed by another publisher. I worked closely with him and found him to be one of the smartest, hardest-working and most dedicated journalists I've ever met.
