Bottorff departs Forbes Advisor for Fortune Recommends
Cassie Bottorff has joined as editor of Fortune Recommends, which provides guides and reviews on everything money, including investing, mortgages, credit cards and more. Recently, Bottorff was at Forbes Advisor, where she held the posts of assistant assigning editor – SMB and then deputy editor. Before that, she was at Fit Small Business in New […]
Hogg joins Fortune as Europe biz reporter
Fortune has hired Ryan Hogg as Europe business reporter to cover tech, transport, real estate and energy. Recently, he was a junior business reporter at Insider, where he joined in March 2022 as a business news fellow. Hogg freelanced for business and finance website Capital.com in London, where he covered FX and ECM markets in […]
Sraders swaps Fortune for FT-backed Sifted
Anne Sraders will join Financial Times’ Sifted to cover European startups and venture capital. She will also write Sifted’s flagship newsletter. Since April 2022, Sraders has been a senior writer at Fortune, where she joined in June 2019 as an intern. She then took on the post of reporter. She interned at Dow Jones and […]
Fortune EIC Shontell on CEO Murray
Fortune editor in chief Alyson Shontell sent out the following to the staff on Wednesday: Good morning team, As you have just heard in the town hall, Alan will be transitioning out of the CEO role by the end of April. The move, while bittersweet for him because he loves Fortune, was mutually agreed upon with our […]
Fortune CEO Murray memo about his pending departure
Fortune CEO Alan Murray sent the following to the staff on Wednesday: All, I want to let you know that, in agreement with Fortune’s owner and board, I will be stepping down as CEO at the end of April next year. It has been the honor of my life to lead this storied brand for the past […]
Fortune CEO Murray is stepping down
Alan Murray, the chief executive officer of Fortune and its former editor in chief, is stepping down in six months. Murray has been CEO since December 2018 after the magazine was sold. A formal announcement is expected later Wednesday. He oversees the business and editorial operations of the independent media company and expanded its digital […]
Fortune staffers walk out at lunch
Staffers who are part of the News Guild of New York union, which represents digital employees of Fortune magazine, took a coordinated lunch break Thursday to the parent company slow-walking contract talks. A supermajority of members left their desks at 1 p.m. and presented management with a letter with a demand for the company to […]
Fortune hires Ivanova as deputy editor of digital
Fortune magazine has hires Irina Ivanova as deputy editor for digital news. She will be covering wealth, inequality, climate change and work. She was most recently associate managing editor at CBS MoneyWatch, where she wrote stories and produced videos on housing, inequality, and climate change. Prior experience includes being a news editor at Huffington Post and reporter at Crain’s New […]
Jackson departs Fortune
Anna-Louise Jackson has left Fortune magazine, where she has worked full time since April 2022. Jackson previously worked at CNBC Acorns as a senior writer based in New York and as a lead writer for NerdWallet, focused on the site’s investing content. Before that, she worked at Bloomberg for more than six years as a U.S. stocks reporter, economics […]
Executive editor Stanberry departs Fortune
Lindsey Stanberry, an executive editor at Fortune, has left after 16 months. During her tenure, she launched four new verticals — Success, Personal Finance, Recommends and Well. She also oversaw the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For and the Fortune 25 Best Places to Live for Families list. Stanberry also co-chaired Fortune’s inaugural Impact […]
