Veteran journalist to lead Purchasing
Staff -- Purchasing, 4/21/2005 2:00:00 AM
It is with great excitement that PURCHASING announces the appointment of Paul Teague as Editor-in-Chief, effective April 25, 2005. A professional journalist with more than 30 years of experience on magazines and newspapers, Teague has won numerous editorial awards including a Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award, which has been called "the Pulitzer Prize of the business press." Teague's past editorial leadership posts include Chief Editor, Fire Journal, the nation's largest fire protection magazine, Chief Editor, Cambridge Chronicle, the weekly newspaper of record in Cambridge, Mass., Chief Editor of Design News and, more recently, National Editor of Design News.
In total, Teague has spent the last 14 years reporting and writing for Design News, a sister publication to PURCHASING. And, while Design News may have a different focal point than PURCHASING, Teague's reporting has more often than not touched upon major supply management issues. For example, Teague recently wrote an inside story on the auto industry's move to re-launch diesel fuel technology as an alternative to clean the environment and cut reliance on gasoline. "The diesel story is very much a supply chain story," says Teague, "because Tier 1 and 2 suppliers have to go out and build the components and subassemblies that will enable the auto companies' diesel research to take root." Other stories in Teague's recent repertoire include how companies like Kodak and Silicon Graphics collaborated with suppliers to develop world-class new products.
The upshot is that Teague will bring to PURCHASING a renewed emphasis on how companies and their procurement organizations work with suppliers rather than against them. Expect more stories on such top-of-mind subjects as outsourcing, reducing supply chain complexity, global sourcing, supplier development, and procurement's role in product design. These are subjects our readers and Editorial Advisory Board have asked us to emphasize, and Teague is well positioned to deliver.
Other things you can expect from Teague: Greater integration and interplay between the print and online versions of PURCHASING, more expansive reader research to find out what today's diverse procurement professionals need to know in order to excel at their jobs, and a more prominent role for readers in both the print and online publications of PURCHASING magazine.
Expect also to see Teague out and about on the conference and public speaking circuit and be sure to make yourselves known to him and to let him know what you like and don't like about PURCHASING magazine. Starting on April 25, you can reach Teague directly at 781-734-8209 or pteague@reedbusiness.com.
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