What is Creativity’s Worth?

Josh Tyrangiel

What is Creativity’s Worth?

Filmed on October 23, 2014, at “Gain: AIGA Design and Business Conference

About this video

Tyrangiel sits down with Nathan Shedroff to examine some of the biggest challenges we face around the world why we must confront them now and how the creative industry is poised to make a big impact.

Speaker bio

In September 2013 Josh Tyrangiel was named senior executive editor for consumer products including Bloomberg Businessweek Bloomberg Digital Bloomberg TV Bloomberg Projects and Investigations and Bloomberg Muse the arts and culture unit. Tyrangiel was named editor of Bloomberg Businessweek in November 2009 and has been credited with the successful redesign and relaunch of the magazine. Under his leadership  Bloomberg Businessweek has grown in frequency rate base editorial pages and ad pages. Among its recent distinctions  Bloomberg Businessweek received the 2014 Society of American Business Editors and Writers “Best in Business” general excellence award for magazines the 2012 National Magazine Award for general excellence in the general-interest category and was named to Adweek's 2011 “Hot List” as one of the most influential magazines of the year. Tyrangiel was named Advertising Age's 2012 “Editor of the Year” and appeared on the Crain's New York Business 2012 “40 Under 40” list.

Prior to joining Bloomberg Businessweek Tyrangiel was deputy managing editor of TIME magazine and managing editor of TIME.com. Under Tyrangiel TIME.com reached an estimated 1.8 billion page views in 2009 up from 400 million page views in 2006 and was twice named the “Best Magazine Web Site” by the Magazine Publishers of America. Tyrangiel began his journalistic career at Rolling Stone  Vibe magazine and MTV Networks. As a news producer for MTV he worked on the Peabody Award-winning “Choose or Lose” pro-democracy campaign that encourages young people to register to vote. He received a M.A. in American Studies from Yale University and a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.