James Ledbetter is Editor, the Big Money, a new financial website launched by Slate.com. Prior to joining Slate, Ledbetter served as deputy managing editor at CNNMoney.com.Previously, he was a senior editor at Time, working for the magazine's European edition. He is the author of Starving To Death on $200 Million: The Short, Absurd Life of The Industry Standard (Public Affairs, 2003), and Made Possible By...: The Death of Public Broadcasting in the United States (Verso, 1997). Ledbetter is also the editor of Dispatches for the New York Tribune: Selected Journalism of Karl Marx, published in 2007 by Penguin Classics. Ledbetter is the former editor-in-chief of The Industry Standard Europe, a former staff writer for The Village Voice, and has written about politics and media for Slate, GQ, The American Prospect, The Washington Post, The Nation, The New York Times, Vibe, Mother Jones, and many other publications.