Jim Treece Email & Phone Number

Detroit, MI

As one of Automotive News' assigning editors, I oversaw our coverage of auto retailing, including new- and used-car operations, F&I, remarketing, dealership M&A, and dealership IT/digital operations, both internal and external (e.g., marketing). I pinch-hit when the editor of Automotive News' weekly F&I e-newsletters is out of town. I also put together.

Covered Asian automakers and suppliers, mainly in Japan but also in Korea, China, Southeast Asia and Taiwan.

Tokyo, Japan

An elected, honorary position, the presidency of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan entails overseeing the professional and social aspects of the oldest press club in Asia. I moderated literally hundreds of professional luncheons and dinners, hosting speakers who included politicians, business leaders, entertainers, authors, civil-rights advocates.

Detroit, MI

Oversaw Business Week's coverage of the auto industry and other Michigan companies. Covered GM and Ford. Wrote 11 cover stories.Later switched to covering U.S. manufacturing across industries. Between this assignment and others, I've visited/toured more than 50 automotive assembly or engine/transmission factories in North America, Asia and Europe. Left to.

Leslie Helm and I then were two of the three correspondents, working under Bureau Chief Larry Armstrong, in Business Week's Tokyo bureau. I spent one year covering finance and general economics, then took on the automotive beat.