[1]Congratulations to Joshua Topolsky, Bloomberg Media [2]’s chief digital content officer, for being named one of Crain [3]’s Top ’40 Under 40’ in New York business.
Topolsky, who admits to being a high school dropout, ‘eats lunch at the desk, has an iPhone, wears jeans and chucks, is scattered, in a creative way, uses social media three-to-five times a day’ according to Crain’s announcement of the ’40 Under 40’.
Hailing from Pittsburgh, the former DJ was named editor of techie webzine Engadget in 2008, then, in 2011, co-founded The Verge, a tech-news website that launched with four million unique viewers – and gained an additional 10 million by 2014, when Vox Media, its parent company, was valued at more than $200 million.
Justin Smith, Bloomberg Media CEO, hired Topolsky last summer to bring his multiplatform news model to the company.
Since then, Topolsky has made a number of key hires and, in January, launched Bloomberg’s new website. [4]