Beth Belton
Lecturer, Online News Editor, Business Week

Phone: (202) 383-2120
Fax: (508) 302-8476
E-mail: beth_belton@businessweek.com
Office: MPA 425

Expertise

Courses Taught

JOUR 124, Internet News and Investigation

Selected Works

Background

Beth Belton is a veteran journalist with an extensive background in financial and economic coverage for national and international publications. Throughout her career, she has established journalistic relationships with decision-makers at the highest levels of U.S. government and Wall Street. Currently Belton is Business Week’s online news editor.

From 1989 to 2000, she was a newsroom leader at USA Today, holding top reporting and management posts at the paper in the crucial years when the newspaper went from being a ridiculed startup to a credible, serious, and financially successful product. As a Money section reporter and editor-at-large for USA TODAY, Belton covered U.S. and global economies for four years, and financial markets and Wall Street out of the New York City office for six years. She regularly interviewed Federal Reserve, administration and congressional policymakers and traveled extensively in the U.S. and abroad. Later she was named editor of USATODAY.com’s Money section and played a key role in selecting, negotiating and managing content partnerships.

Belton helped Business Week and USA Today develop strategies for integrating their print products online, including plans to extend and strengthen their successful brands.
From 1988 to 1989, Belton was a senior writer and columnist covering U.S. credit markets for the International Financing Review. As a staff writer for Investment Dealers' Digest from 1987 to 1988, she covered Wall Street with an emphasis on mergers, taxes and regulatory issues. She was also Washington editor for Institutional Investor where she covered regulatory and legislative initiatives affecting Wall Street.

During her early career, she worked as editor and reporter at three small Ohio newspapers and from 1983 to 1986, she was letters editor and editorial writer, focusing on local politics and the arts for The Washington Times.

Education

B.S., Journalism, Kent State University, 1978
Executive M.B.A., Carnegie-Mellon University, 1978