Fortune’s Hempel to join Wired
Jessi Hempel, a senior writer at Fortune magazine, has resigned to join Wired magazine. She writes on Medium: Today, I’m thrilled to share the news that I am joining WIRED as a senior writer covering the business of technology. It’s hard to leave a journalistic organization as rich in quality and history as Fortune. It […]
Fortune to start daily newsletter called Data Sheet
Fortune has launched a new daily newsletter called the Data Sheet. Fortune senior editor Andrew Nusca writes about the newsletter: But here’s the truth: we’re all busy. Anything to help distill or explain the day’s news leaves us more time to get work done. Which is why we’ve launched Data Sheet, named after the technical […]
Murray’s note to Pew staff on leaving for Fortune
Alan Murray, the president of the Pew Research Center, sent the following note to his staff on resigning to become the next editor of Fortune: It is with very mixed emotions that I announce I am leaving at the end of the month to become Editor of Fortune magazine. This is not a job I […]
Alan Murray named editor of Fortune
Alan Murray has been named editor of Fortune, it was announced Tuesday. Murray will be the 17th editor since Fortune was founded in 1930 by Henry R. Luce. He will oversee one of the world’s leading business publications, websites, and conference businesses, with more than 13 million readers worldwide in print, online, mobile and social […]
Examining the last piece of biz reporting from Loomis — and her ethics
John Kimelman of Barron’s writes Tuesday about the Fortune story by retiring business journalism legend Carol Loomis about BlackRock, but not before examining her ethics. Kimelman writes, “Loomis, 85, goes down as one of the most celebrated financial journalists ever. Like the late Alan Abelson of Barron’s, another journalistic legend, she didn’t quit her job […]
Fortune adds daily newsletter aimed at news about powerful women
Fortune launched Tuesday a new daily online newsletter The Broadsheet, which highlights news on the world’s most powerful women. It is also an extension of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women franchise. Senior editor at large Patricia Sellers writes, “Every weekday morning starting July 8, Fortune reporter Caroline Fairchild will deliver news about the world’s most prominent women, touch on hot-button […]
Loomis: Always ahead of the curve
Christine Haughney of the New York Times profiles Carol Loomis of Fortune magazine, who has retired after more than 60 years at the business publication. Haughney writes, “In the 1960s, she wrote one of the first articles about hedge funds. She reported two cover articles on the risk of derivatives in the mid-1990s, long before […]
Fortune’s Serwer: Hard to say goodbye to Carol Loomis
Fortune managing editor Andy Serwer writes his editor’s note in the next issue of the business magazine about Carol Loomis and her retirement from the magazine after working there for more than 60 years. Serwer writes, “Carol was born on June 25, 1929, and raised in Cole Camp, Mo., a hamlet of about 1,000 people […]
Fortune’s Carol Loomis to retire after 60+ years
Here is the note that Fortune’s Carol Loomis sent to her staff members on Tuesday: Three-score years and five months ago, I came to Fortune. I loved my job from the start and have always considered myself supremely lucky to be here. But today seems to be my last day before I retire, so… The first people […]
Fortune names new deputy ME
Fortune managing editor Andy Serwer sent out the following email announcement on Friday: As you probably know Stephanie Mehta is leaving Fortune today. I said to many of you last night that Stephanie truly belongs in Fortune’s Hall of Fame. She has been an outstanding editor, an inspiring mentor and a wonderful, tireless and steadfast colleague. We will […]
