Click to zoom Eric Schurenberg
Managing Editor
MONEY

Eric Schurenberg became managing editor of MONEY magazine in June 2004. In the next six months he led the magazine through a complete relaunch, introducing a friendly new design and widening its editorial focus to include all the ways in which money and life intersect. Under Schurenberg, MONEY introduced new departments on real estate and family finance and new columns on health, retirement, the workplace, and life in a baby-boomer family. Schurenberg also revived such beloved MONEY franchises as One Family's Money and The Best Places to Live.

In the half-year after the redesign, overall subscription renewal rates rose by 20% and newsstand sales increased by 26%, compared with the 12-month previous levels. In 2006, Media Industry Newsletter named MONEY magazine "Reinvention of the Year." In late April of 2007, Schurenberg was elected to the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) board for a two-year term.

This is actually Schurenberg's second tour at MONEY. He first joined the magazine in 1984 as a fact-checker and stayed for 13 years, rising to assistant managing editor. He then joined FORTUNE magazine, also as an assistant managing editor, and later became deputy editor of Business 2.0 before returning to MONEY. In 2000, he temporarily left journalism for Wall Street, serving as a vice president in Goldman Sachs' investment management division.

As a writer during his first stint at MONEY, Schurenberg won a Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business journalism, a National Magazine Award, and a Page One Award. At Business 2.0, two stories he edited were named finalists for Gerald Loeb Awards.

Schurenberg frequently appears in other media. He is a regular featured commentator on PBS's Nightly Business Report and filled similar roles for several years on NPR's Marketplace Morning Report, Media One's "You and Your Money," and WCBS-TV in New York. He has also appeared as a guest on NBC's "Today," CBS's "The Early Show," ABC's "Good Morning America" and "The View" and CNN's "American Morning." He is the author of the book 401(k): Take Charge of Your Future (Warner Books).

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