Jim Ledbetter
Senior Business Editor, TIME Europe
Jim Ledbetter was appointed senior business editor of TIME Europe, Middle East and Africa in October 2002, based at TIME’s International headquarters in London.
Ledbetter brings a wealth of experience to the magazine. In 2000 he launched the European edition of The Industry Standard, the newsweekly that covered the Internet boom, where he was editor-in-chief until 2001. Prior to this, Ledbetter was the New York Bureau Chief for The Industry Standard U.S. edition.
Ledbetter established his career in the 1990s and built-up a strong reputation as a New York-based media reporter and columnist for the Village Voice and The New York Observer. In addition, he has written for dozens of other publications, among them: The New York Times, Slate, The Nation, The New Republic, The Washington Post, GQ, Vibe, Mother Jones and Columbia Journalism Review. Ledbetter has also written three books including Starving to Death on $200 Million a Year: The Short, Absurd Life of the Industry Standard, published in spring 2003. Additionally, Ledbetter is editing, for Penguin Classics, a collection of Karl Marx's journalism, to be published in spring 2007.
