Richard Siklos

Richard Siklos became a business writer for The New York Times in July 2005.  Before joining The Times, Mr. Siklos was a weekly columnist for The Sunday Telegraph since 2002 and a monthly columnist for The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business magazine since 2004.  He was also a contributing writer and consulting editor for Vanity Fair’s annual New Establishment Report from 2001 until 2004.

Mr. Siklos was the founding editor-in-chief of Inside magazine and the founding business editor of Inside.com in 2000.  From 1998 until 2000, he was a media editor at BusinessWeek.  Mr. Siklos served as the New York bureau chief for the Financial Post from 1994 until 1998.  His work has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Colors, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Financial Times of Canada and the Australian Financial Review.

Mr. Siklos has been an adjunct professor at New York University’s Department of Culture and Communication since 2001, and in the past has served as an external advisor to McKinsey & Company Consultants.

Mr. Siklos is the author of “Shades of Black,” (Reed International Books, 1995), a biography on Conrad Black’s rise and fall.  In 2000, Mr. Siklos was named to the TJFR Group’s Blue Chip Newsroom, a list of top business journalists.

Mr. Siklos received a B.A. degree in journalism from Ryerson University in 1987.  He lives in New York with his wife Laine.