Better Roads magazine has a new editor on staff.

Mike Anderson has joined the Better Roads staff as senior editor. He will also serve as senior editor of Better Roads’  sister magazine, Equipment World. Mike is a welcome addition. I’ve personally known Mike for several years now through the Construction Writers Association and from industry press events. He is an excellent editor and very knowledgeable. He’s also a great person.

We hope you’ll be as excited as we are to have him join our staff.

Here are a few words from Mike as well as some background about him.

“To have the opportunity to join the staff of Better Roads and Randall-Reilly Publishing Co. is truly equivalent to winning the lottery twice in the same day,” Anderson says.

“Under the leadership of Publisher Joe Donald and Editor-in-Chief John Latta, Better Roads is positioned ideally to both leverage a tremendously rich history and fully embrace the future as an industry-leading full media ensemble. It is highly invigorating, motivating and gratifying, and yet so very humbling, to be asked to be a part of this team, especially at such an exciting moment,” Anderson continues. “At the same time, to be welcomed as an associate of Randall-Reilly Publishing Co. is an honor reserved for the truly blessed, fortunate, achieving and accomplishing among those of us who love working in the B2B media realm. I deeply appreciate and cherish this opportunity, and only look forward to sunny days to come.”

I am a native of Pembroke, Ontario, Canada, but grew up primarily in the Toronto-area community of Brampton, graduating in 1984 from J.A. Turner Secondary School, where I first fell in love with media studies. My first media gig was, in Grade 11, as a sports reporter for a local radio station. During college, studying Journalism at Humber College in Toronto, I started working as a part-time reporter for my hometown Brampton Daily Times newspaper, and later joined the staff full-time upon graduation.