The New York Times has hired Brian O’Keefe to be editor of its Dealbook section, reports Lachlan Cartwright of Breaker.
O’Keefe has been executive editor at Esquire for the past three years and previously was senior executive editor at Fortune magazine.
He had been acting editor of Fortune after editor in chief Clifton Leaf left in 2021. O’Keefe had been overseeing Fortune’s most ambitious long-form storytelling across platforms as well as the production of the print magazine.
O’Keefe returned to Fortune in 2018 as deputy editor after a stint as IBM’s editor-in-chief of its Institute for Business Value. He was previously a Fortune staffer for 18 years. He also worked at Smart Money magazine.
O’Keefe holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Alabama and a master’s degree from New York University.
