Fortune announces hiring of 12 new staffers

Fortune editor-in-chief Clifton Leaf sent the following note to staff on Monday: Dear colleagues, It gives me great pleasure to welcome several new writers and editors to FORTUNE and to announce one well-deserved promotion. Rachel Schallom joins FORTUNE as deputy digital editor, based in the New York office. Rachel, who until recently was managing editor […]

Fortune’s Ellen McGirt joins Better podcast

Ellen McGirt, a senior editor at Fortune who writes the daily RaceAhead column, joined Great Place to Work’s podcast Better to discuss race, diversity and inclusion in corporate culture. McGirt was featured on Episode 11, saying that 2019’s Black History Month was a complete disaster. “An expert on Diversity & Inclusion, McGirt says that race […]

Lance Lambert assumes associate data editor role at Fortune

Lance Lambert has been hired as the associate data editor at Fortune magazine. He will be responsible for creating data-driven premium newsletters. Lambert previously from August 2017 to August 2019 as a data journalist for Realtor.com. Prior to his time at Realtor.com, he worked as a data journalist for Bloomberg. Lambert graduated from The University […]

Fortune hires deputy editor, three other new staffers

Fortune magazine has hired a deputy editor and three other new staffers as it expands its editorial employee base under its new ownership. Brian O’Keefe is returning to Fortune as deputy editor after a stint as IBM’s editor-in-chief of its Institute for Business Value. Brian was previously a Fortune staffer for 18 years. He will […]

Fortune overhauls its website

Fortune has redesigned and revamped its website as part of its switch to new ownership. It last redid its website in 2014. As part of its transition to independent ownership, it migrated to a version Fortune Media Group completely controls. Fortune’s newly hired technical team — from chief technology officer Jonathan Rivers on down — […]

Kahn exits Bloomberg News for Fortune

Jeremy Kahn has moved on from Bloomberg to rejoin Fortune magazine and cover artificial intelligence and other forms of disruptive technology. He was most recently a technology beat reporter at Bloomberg News, and before that was a writer for Bloomberg Markets magazine. “My career started at Fortune 20 years ago and I am eager to […]

Fortune seeks a social media editor in LA

Fortune, which boasts signature franchises like the Fortune 500, Most Powerful Women in Business and the World’s Greatest Leaders, seeks a Social Media Editor to join its audience engagement team to help lead the development and day-to-day execution of Fortune’s social media and distribution strategy. This editor will collaborate with Fortune’s writers and editors on […]

Morris joins Fortune as staff writer

Fortune has hired David Z. Morris as staff writer. Morris was previously a freelance writer with bylines in Fortune, The Atlantic, Slate, Pacific Standard, and other outlets. He’s also a former social science researcher. His primary areas of interest include race and identity, technology, and culture. Fortune in May raised its cover price, established a […]

Fortune is raising its price, adding a paywall

Fortune magazine is raising its cover price, launching a digital paywall and boosting its conference business, reports Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg of The Wall Street Journal. Trachtenberg reports, “Mr. Murray, a former Wall Street Journal editor, said the digital paywall would be implemented later this year, and that early next year the print magazine would be […]

Fortune’s digital staff votes to join union

Fortune magazine’s digital staff voted 20-3 earlier this week to join the NewsGuild of New York. The staffers issued a statement that read, “We look forward to joining the 41% of the staff already represented by the existing union agreement and working with management to agree on a contract that covers all editorial workers equally.” […]