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Topic: Memos Sent to Romenesko
Date/Time: 3/21/2008 9:35:32 AM
Title: Lieber named NYT "Your Money" columnist
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
 
Memo from New York Times business editor

From: Lawrence Ingrassia
To: [New York Times business staff]
Subject: Ron Lieber to Join Business Day as "Your Money" Columnist
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:14:26 -0400

Ron Lieber to Join Business Day as “Your Money” Columnist

Business Day has been searching far and wide for a "Your Money" columnist to replace Damon Darlin, no easy feat given that his stories became must reads and frequently landed very high on the most emailed list.

We have now found someone who can fit into Damon’s shoes: Ron Lieber, who used to write a column similar to Damon's for the WSJ and who most recently has been helping to create a new personal-finance Web site, FiLife.com. As Damon says enthusiastically, "He's what we've been looking for."

During his most recent assignment at the WSJ, Ron wrote the "Green Thumb," a managing-your-money column that covered a wide range of finance topics of interest to a broad swath of readers - the economics of paternity leave; how to avoid buying a "conflict" (or "blood") diamond; and the lifetime cost of owning a pet. He joined the WSJ in 2002, as an original member of the Personal Journal team, writing about consumer travel, credit cards and other personal-money issues (like how to return wedding gifts for cash and how to borrow fancy jewels like the stars do for the Oscars).

Over the past year, Ron has been managing editor of FiLife.com, a joint venture between IAC/InterActiveCorp. and Dow Jones, a personal finance Web site for people in their 20s and 30s that is in development. Ron's Web experience will be help The Times expand the “Your Money” franchise and readership.

Ron has previously worked for Fast Company and Fortune magazines, and has written several books. He is the co-author of “Taking Time Off," which encouraged people to take a year off sometime before or during college, which rose to number four on the NYT paperback business bestseller list. He's also the author of "Upstart Startups," which chronicles the adventures of a couple of dozen young entrepreneurs in the late 1990's, and of “Best Entry-Level Jobs," a Princeton Review guidebook.

He already has a Times byline. In September 1991, he wrote an op-ed piece, "Call the Police, Not the Dean," that called for colleges to get out of the business of adjudicating felonies (sexual assaults in particular) via their on-campus “courts" and instead turn these cases over to the proper governmental authorities.

Ron grew up in Chicago, five blocks east of Wrigley Field, and remains a “Wait Till Next Year” Cubs loyalist. (He was heartbroken over the fatal foul ball in the 2003 playoffs that was caught by a fan, leading to a loss and to his writing a front-page WSJ a-hed, "How One Man Went From Regular Fan To a Cubs Legend.")

"Food is my other obsession besides personal finance (and the Cubs)," he says, so much so that he has written about food for Saveur and all of the business publications where he has worked. And, he adds, "I am occasionally known better as Mr. Jodi Kantor, she of The Times national desk (currently on loan to the campaign coverage team). We have a daughter, Talia, age two, and we live in Park Slope."

Join me in welcoming Ron to The Times. He starts in early May.

Larry

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