Joseph Weber, the Jerry and Karla Huse Professor of News-Editorial and Associate Professor of Journalism, has worked in magazines and newspapers for 35 years. He spent most of that time, 22 years, reporting and writing for BUSINESS WEEK, starting as a correspondent in Dallas and then running the magazine's bureaus in Philadelphia, Toronto and Chicago. He took on the role of chief of correspondents for the organization in early 2006, serving until the summer of 2009.

Before BW, Weber reported and wrote for the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, Dun's Business Month in New York City and The Home News in New Brunswick, N.J. He began his career at the New Brunswick daily paper as a proofreader while an undergraduate, rising to copy boy and then beat reporter. He has a B.A. from Rutgers College and an M.S.J. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he specialized in economic and business journalism.

He holds an Excellence in Financial Journalism Award from the New York State Society of CPAs, as well as two Peter Lisagor Awards from the Headline Club of Chicago, a Distinguished Editorial Achievement Award from McGraw-Hill, the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics Journalism Award and the Morton Margolin Prize from the University of Denver.