Fortune’s Hackett departing for Andreessen Horowitz

Fortune magazine staffer Robert Hackett is leaving the magazine to lead editorial and content for investment company Andreessen Horowitz’s cryptocurrency fund. Hackett is a senior writer and tech editor at Fortune. He is a co-chair of the Brainstorm Tech and Brainstorm Finance conferences and creator of The Ledger, Fortune’s crypto franchise. He co-authors Fortune’s daily technology newsletter Data Sheet and weekly fintech […]

Investor’s Business Daily hires Buysse as senior audience development strategist

John Buysse has joined Investor’s Business Daily as a senior audience development strategist. He comes from Fortune magazine, where he recently served on the audience strategy team and was an engagement editor. He was also global junior brand strategist at Ogilvy in Chicago. Buysse graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

New EIC Shontell wants to turbocharge the Fortune brand

Sara Guaglione of Digiday spoke with incoming Fortune editor in chief Alyson Shontell about her plans. Here is an excerpt: What are your first orders of business when you start your new job? I want to put some systems in place to turbo-charge the subscriptions business even farther at Fortune. I need to know what people are subscribing […]

Fortune hires Business Insider’s Shontell as editor in chief

Business Insider editor in chief Alyson Shontell has been hired as the new editor of Fortune magazine. Fortune’s Alan Murray and David Meyer write, “Alyson Shontell, who since 2016 has been editor-in-chief of Business Insider, is taking over editorial leadership of our 92-year old brand, effective Oct. 6. In her new role, she will oversee all the content on Fortune’s multimedia platforms—including the […]

Fortune names Bellstrom its executive editor

Fortune acting editor in chief Brian O’Keefe sent out the following on Friday: Dear colleagues, It gives me tremendous pleasure to announce two very well-deserved promotions at Fortune. As of today, Kristen Bellstrom is promoted from the role of Features Editor to Executive Editor, and Rachel Lobdell is promoted from Digital Editor to Editorial Director. When Kristen […]

Quartz increases staff diversity due to remote work

Financial news site Quartz increased its staff diversity by offering workers the chance to work remotely, reports Sara Guaglione of Digiday. Guaglione reports, “Quartz opened up hiring to ‘all applicants everywhere’ last summer, as part of the hiring policy changes implemented to improve its process as well as diversify the applicant pool and subsequently staff. ‘Nothing compared […]

Fortune health care reporter Mukherjee is leaving

Sy Mukherjee, who covers health care for Fortune magazine, is leaving the publication at the end of the month. “In fact, I’m leaving journalism altogether after 9 years as a health reporter to launch an exciting, and very different, new chapter,” he wrote on Twitter. Mukherjee has been with Fortune since March 2016 and also […]

Fortune postpones CEO conference after employees plan strike

Fortune magazine has postponed its CEO Initiative conference for later this month after its editorial employees, seeking a union contract with the publication, said they would strike for those two days, reports Maxwell Tani of The Daily Beast. Tani reports, “But ahead of the union’s announcement of the strike, Fortune CEO Alan Murray wrote in a Tuesday email to […]

Fortune editorial staffers to strike during CEO conference

The editorial employees of the Fortune Union announced Tuesday that they will walk off the job for two days and picket next month during the CEO Initiative event in protest over management’s negotiations with the NewsGuild of New York. Members of the Fortune Union have been fighting for a fair contract with standard benefits like […]

Fortune seeks a senior tech editor

Fortune is hiring a thoughtful and energetic senior tech editor to grow our technology team and expand the footprint of our coverage of Silicon Valley, artificial intelligence, fintech, data privacy and more. We’re looking for an editor who can think critically about the ways technology is shaping companies, consumers, and policy and successfully lead a […]