Stephen J. Adler

Editor-in-Chief
BusinessWeek

Steve Adler is editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek, appointed in December, 2004. Under his leadership, BusinessWeek has received two National Magazine Awards, most recently for Personal Service Online for BusinessWeek.com's B-Schools Channel. Previously he was deputy managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, responsible for helping direct news coverage of the daily paper, extending the reach of The Wall Street Journal on the Internet and in other media, and overseeing The Wall Street Journal Books imprint. While at The Wall Street Journal, he directed reporting teams that won three Pulitzer Prizes for articles on the tobacco industry (1995), the new AIDS treatments (1996), and military spending (1999). His book, The Jury: Trial and Error in the American Courtroom, was published in 1994 and won the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award in 1995. He holds a bachelor's degree from Harvard College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

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