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(Source enr.com - Date 3/23/03)
By Judy Schriener
Janice Lyn Tuchman has been promoted to editor-in-chief of Engineering News-Record weekly news magazine, the 127-year-old bible of the industry, and its Web site, enr.com. Tuchman replaces Howard B. Stussman, a 33-year veteran of ENR, who is retiring and now becomes editor emeritus. McGraw-Hill is the parent company of both ENR and construction.com.
Tuchman is only the third editor-in-chief at ENR over the past four decades. She succeeds Stussman and Arthur J. Fox Jr., who is also editor emeritus and has remained active in the industry since he retired at the end of 1988.
"[ENR Publisher] Jay McGraw and I have sought far and wide for guidance to determine the best candidate for this incredibly important leadership role. This role demands the best," Norbert W. Young Jr., president of the McGraw-Hill Construction Information Group, told the 2001 Newsmakers award winners today as he made the announcement. "Thanks to Howard Stussman's mentoring, and thanks to his conviction, intellect and, yes, passion, our new leader comes from within our publishing group." Tuchman had been ENR's executive editor.
Tuchman joined ENR in 1976. She has led or been on the scene to cover such important events as the Mexico City earthquake, the Northridge Earthquake in California and the World Trade Center bombing in New York City. She also co-authored a book on Exposed Structure in Building Design. She is a popular speaker at industry events worldwide.
Prior to joining ENR, Tuchman worked for newspapers in Boulder, Colo., and Akron, Ohio. She earned bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Tuchman has big shoes to fill, not only because she is female and her feet are smaller, but because her predecessors were formidable and highly respected in the construction industry. Young and McGraw were surprised when some of Tuchman's colleagues campaigned for her to the extent of getting some of the heaviest hitters in the industry to call them—some from overseas—and put in a good word for Tuchman. They did in spades, and the two leaders, who are relatively new to ENR, quickly got the message that Tuchman deserved the job in her own right and not just because of her long tenure. (Young, an American Institute of Architects Fellow, comes from the construction industry and has been at McGraw-Hill since late 1997. McGraw spent 20 years at Business Week before taking over ENR last year, and yes, as the great-great grandson of the founder, he's one of the McGraw-Hill McGraws.)
Stussman, as did Fox, leaves a legacy of editorial integrity, guidance of and caring for the industry. ENR won many prestigious editorial awards under Stussman's watch, grew to double-digit annual growth with a relatively small staff—people are always shocked when they come to ENR's office and see a small cadre of editors instead of rows and rows. Stussman has been dealing with a rare form of cancer for the last two years and has had to spend most of the last year-plus out of the office, but he will be consulting and advising ENR in key areas in the days to come.
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