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February 1, 2008

Fast Company Editor Charles Fishman to Be Business Writer in Residence

Charles Fishman, award-winning investigative and magazine journalist and senior editor at Fast Company magazine, will be on campus the week of April 6-10 as the spring semester’s Business Writer in Residence. The Business Writer in Residence program is a joint effort by the Wisconsin School of Business, the School of Journalism and Mass Communications and University Communications to bring in nationally known business writers to interact with business and journalism students.

Fishman has spent the last 20 years trying to get inside, understand and explain important organizations, from NASA to Wal-Mart. His first book, “The Wal-Mart Effect” was published in 1996 and made the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek’s bestseller lists. The book was also chosen as the “best book of 2006” by The Economist, the Financial Times and the editors of Amazon.com. He won the Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business journalism, the highest honor in business journalism, in both 2005 and 2007.

Anyone interested in scheduled a meeting or an event with Fishman, should contact Communications Director Lari Fanlund lfanlund@bus.wisc.edu, 262-2401 in Marketing Services. The Business Writer in Residence program is funded by a grant from the UW Foundation.