Accomplished News Executive Jeffrey Rothfeder Named Editor-in-Chief At International Business Times

NEW YORK, May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Etienne Uzac, Chief Executive Officer of The International Business Times Inc. (http://www.ibtimes.com/), a global digital news organization, today announced the appointment of veteran business news executive Jeffrey Rothfeder as the company's new Editor-in-Chief. Mr. Rothfeder, who will report to Chief Content Officer Johnathan Davis, will oversee the continued transformation of IBTimes into a world-class multimedia news service, building and executing editorial strategies across the company's global newsrooms. Mr. Davis, who previously served as Executive Editor, will manage the company's branded content strategy across all platforms. IBTimes has a global network of journalists supplying news, analysis and information, reaching over 10 million visitors a month.

Mr. Rothfeder brings more than 20 years of media and business leadership to the company. He joins IBTimes after holding key editorial and executive positions at Bloomberg, Time Inc., Businessweek, Booz & Co., and PC Magazine. He is an accomplished author and has written a number of top-selling and critically acclaimed business books including "McIlhenny's Gold," "Privacy for Sale," "The People vs. Big Tobacco (co-author), "Make or Break" (co-author), and "Minds Over Matter."

"Jeff is one of the most talented and experienced business news executives in the world," said Etienne Uzac. "We are absolutely thrilled to welcome him here to IBTimes. His journalistic vision and appetite for global coverage are perfectly in line with our growth strategy. Our mission is to foster global economic growth by empowering people everywhere with excellent, insightful and accurate news, analysis and information."

Mr. Rothfeder served as the National News Editor at Bloomberg News, where he managed the coverage of U.S. and Canadian companies, supervising a staff of over 200 editors and reporters in the production of 1,000 print, audio and video stories a day, including features, profiles, columns and breaking news. In addition to his work at Bloomberg, Mr. Rothfeder developed and managed award-winning magazines for Fidelity Investments and the New York Stock Exchange for Time's custom publishing unit; and spent four years as the Information Management Editor at Businessweek, where he was responsible for creating the Information Management department, which covered how society and business uses technology and disseminates information. More recently, he was a Senior Editor at Strategy&Business Magazine, primarily overseeing manufacturing coverage. And earlier in his career, he worked for The Washington Post as a business and environment Special Correspondent.

An award winning journalist, Mr. Rothfeder's articles have appeared in The New York Times, Portfolio, PC World, Chief Executive, St. Petersburg Times, Science, This Old House, Popular Science, CIO Insight, Consumer Reports, Forbes, and many other publications. His awards include the prestigious Award for Excellence in Technology Communication and the American Society of Business Press and Editors Excellence Competition. He was named one of the top 100 Business Journalists in the country by TJFR and was a finalist for the Loeb Award and the National Magazine Award. Mr. Rothfeder received a Bachelor of Arts from the State University of NY. He also attended University of California at Berkeley and City College of NY.

IBTimes readers can now get up to the minute global news online anytime anywhere with the recent launch of the company's new iPad app, now available on the iTunes store.

About International Business Times

IBTimes is a fast-growing online business newspaper, comprised of 16 country editions and published in 10 languages.

Launched in 2005 by co-founders Etienne Uzac and Johnathan Davis, and reaching over 10 million monthly unique readers globally, it is one of the most popular websites in the world. IBTimes is breaking new ground in global business journalism by providing minute-to-minute coverage with an international context. Through daily news coverage and analysis as well as feature articles, IBTimes offers both an immediate global snapshot and a more thoughtful wide-lens portrait that capture the way economic, political and social activities link one region to the next and one business to the next. With this unique approach to news, IBTimes increasingly leads the agenda and global discourse on many major stories. The company's mission is to foster global economic growth by empowering people everywhere with excellent news, analysis and information. IBTimes global headquarters are in New York City. For more information, visit: http://www.ibtimes.com/.

SOURCE The International Business Times Inc.