Mai 13, 2008
Berlin Faculty Member Norman Pearlstine Named Chief Content Officer at Bloomberg
He will seek opportunities for Bloomberg television, radio, magazine and online products while strengthening news operations
Bloomberg announced on May 12th that it has named Norman Pearlstine its Chief Content Officer, a newly-created position. In this role Pearlstine will partner with Bloomberg News Founder and Editor-in-Chief Matthew Winkler to seek growth opportunities for its television, radio, magazine and online products and to make the most of the existing Bloomberg News operations.
Mr. Pearlstine is a member of the Berlin School faculty and served on the the Berlin School Board of Directors making strong contributions in the initial growth phases of the Executive MBA Program.
In making the announcement, Bloomberg L.P. President Dan Doctoroff, to whom both Pearlstine and Winkler will report, said, “Norm’s exceptional accomplishments as the top news executive at Time Inc. and at The Wall Street Journal, coupled with his most recent work as a Senior Advisor for telecom and media at The Carlyle Group, give him experience that will prove invaluable to Bloomberg News. He and Matt Winkler, working side by side, will be one of the most powerful teams in journalism. Norm will be a tremendous asset to Bloomberg as we continue to shape new media for this century.”
Prior to joining Carlyle in September 2006, Pearlstine was Editor-in-Chief of Time Inc., the magazine division of Time Warner Inc. for 11 years. As Editor-in-Chief, Pearlstine oversaw the editorial content of Time Inc.’s 154 magazines, including Entertainment Weekly, Fortune, In Style, Money, People, Real Simple, Sports Illustrated, and Time. He was also responsible for the division's international and new media businesses for several years. Prior to that, Pearlstine worked at The Wall Street Journal for 23 years. He was the paper’s top news executive for nine years, serving as Managing Editor and then Executive Editor. He previously worked as the founding Editor and Publisher of The Wall Street Journal/Europe, the first Managing Editor of The Asian Wall Street Journal, and the Tokyo bureau chief.
Pearlstine was founder of Smart Money magazine and worked as an Executive Editor of Forbes. He is the author of OFF THE RECORD: The Press, the Government, and the War over Anonymous Sources, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2007.
Pearlstine's move to Bloomberg will strengthen Berlin School connections and insights into the areas of media and journalism.
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