Before joining Newsweek as weekend editor, John launched the Greater New York section at The Wall Street Journal and was its editor for about four years. He was deputy managing editor at The New York Sun and had stints at BusinessWeek and Advertising Age International, and spent a year working in Kiev, Ukraine, and eight in Washington, D.C. John grew up in Buffalo and watched and played most sports, and too much pool. He lives in Queens near his son.
