Alyson Shontell, the editor in chief of Fortune, sent out the following on Monday:
All,
First, I wanted to congratulate you on an incredible awards season. Brian’s recent email listed all the journalism awards Fortune’s newsroom just won. It was so long I had to continuously scroll to read them all! I’m beyond proud of the unmatched reporting you do every day.
Our team continues to expand globally. We have external office updates, promotions, and new hires to announce.
Promotions, congrats!
- Chris Joslin, Supervising Producer, Feature Video
- Michal Lev-Ram, Editorial Director, Live Media and Editor-at-Large
- Anne Sraders, Sr Writer, Investing
- Megan Leonhardt, Sr Writer, Success
- Emma Hinchcliffe, Sr Writer, The Broadsheet
New hires, welcome!
- Holly Epstein Ojalvo will be our new managing editor. She previously held a similar role at Quartz, leading newsroom hiring, onboarding, development, and training. She will be working with us on all of that and more. Holly was most recently interim editor in chief at The Fuller Project, and her 25-year career has included stints at The New York Times and USA TODAY. She starts May 9th.
- Alexei Oreskovic is joining as Deputy Tech Editor. He is based in San Francisco and will be expanding our team of beat reporters. He starts mid-May. Alexei was the SF bureau chief and tech features editor at Insider. Before that, he was a tech correspondent for Reuters and The Street.
- Jennifer Fields is launching a big new section for us. She was previously Executive Editor at PopSugar and Senior Director at WebMD. More details to come!
- Alicia Adamczyk joined us from CNBC as a Sr Writer covering personal finance.
- Chloe Taylor will be a reporter in the UK from CNBC starting later this month.
- Kitty Raymond has joined us as copy editor based in NY. She was previously at InStyle.
- Kara Chin joined us as a video producer from Insider.
- Taylor Locke joined us as a crypto reporter from CNBC based in NY.
- Erin Prater joined us as Weekend Editor from the Colorado Springs Gazette.
- Nimah Quadri is a leadership fellow on Ruth Umoh’s team.
- Paige McGlauflin is a leadership fellow on Ruth’s team as well.
New offices are (re)opening
We are reopening the UK and San Francisco offices! Our UK office will be open beginning this week, and I look forward to visiting our team there in May.
Alexei will be helping Mike Kiley select a great location for a new workspace in San Francisco. Timing will be later this spring/summer.
Thank you in advance for warmly welcoming our new members. A big congratulations to each of you for making this growth possible.
Alyson
