Professor Gabor named to Bloomberg chair

Andrea Gabor, a long-time member of the journalism faculty at Baruch, has been named the Bloomberg Professor of Business Journalism, David Dannenbring, the acting dean of the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, has announced.

A faculty adviser for Dollars & Sense, Gabor is the author of three books: The Capitalist Philosophers; The Man Who Discovered Quality: How W. Edwards Deming Brought the Quality Revolution to America, and Einstein's Wife: Work and Marriage in the Lives of Five Great Twentieth Century Women.

A former staff writer and editor at U.S. News & World Report and Business Week, Gabor has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Smithsonian Magazine, The Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Strategy + Business, Treasury and Risk Management, Research Technology Management, Lear’s and Working Woman.

She recently served as editor for the PBS website Einstein's Wife. Her main areas of interest are biography, management, the workplace and international and local economic issues.

The Bloomberg Chair in Business Journalism was created in 2002 with a gift from Bloomberg L.P., the news and information company created by Michael Bloomberg, now the Mayor of New York City. The first holder of the Bloomberg Professorship was Sarah Bartlett, now director of urban and business journalism programs at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism.