Fast Company hires Herbst as staff editor
Fast Company magazine has hired Julia Herbst to be a staff editor for its Work Life section. She starts next week. Herbst has been working at Breaker Magazine in New York since November 2017. She previously was an editorial coordinator and associate editor at Los Angeles Magazine. While there, she contributed monthly to the “Buzz” […]
Why Fast Company’s Mehta trusts her gut
Aarti Virani of Vogue India profiled Fast Company editor in chief Stephanie Mehta and examined her early career in business journalism. Virani writes, “‘Trusting my gut, trusting my instincts and following my true north has always held me in good stead.’ That robust inner compass is precisely what steered Mehta towards her college newspaper office at Northwestern University […]
How Inc. and Fast Company are working together more
Tony Silber writes for Forbes.com about how the two business magazines — Inc. and Fast Company — owned by Mansueto Ventures are working more closely together under CEO Eric Schurenberg. Silber writes, “He offers an example of cross-brand learning: Fast Company had been a sponsor at South By Southwest for nine years, but Inc. hadn’t. […]
Fast Company seeks work life editor
Fast Company is the world’s leading business media brand, with an editorial focus on innovation in technology, leadership, world changing ideas, creativity, and design. Written for and about the most progressive business leaders, Fast Company inspires readers to think expansively, lead with purpose, embrace change, and shape the future of business. Are you a savvy Editor who has 5+ […]
Fast Company’s Sharma is joining Thrive Global
Shalini Sharma, who led video and partnerships at Fast Company, has been hired as head of video at Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global, reports Jocelyn Johnson of The Wrap. Johnson writes, “Having spent a decade prior to that at major news networks like ABC News and NBC on the ‘Today’ show, Sharma is what Huffington calls […]
How Fast Company is growing across all of its platforms
Kayleigh Barber of Folio looks at how Fast Company magazine has been growing its revenue across all of its delivery formats. Barber writes, “Following a recent transition of leadership, with the appointment of Stephanie Mehta to editor-in-chief this past February and Amanda Smith as VP, publisher in April 2017, the focus of Fast Company is also leaning towards […]
Fast Company changes logo, design
Fast Company editor in chief Stephanie Mehta writes about the magazine’s new design and logo. Mehta writes, “So it isn’t surprising that creative director Mike Schnaidt approached our reboot with a human-centered design ethos. He’s incorporated a broader, bolder color palette, elegant new typefaces, and a welcoming vibe. Schnaidt notes that, increasingly, tech-driven companies themselves […]
The latest Fast Company cover is groundbreaking
Kali Hays of Women’s Wear Daily examines how the latest Fast Company cover is groundbreaking under new editor Stephanie Mehta. Hays writes, “The relatively new Fast Company editor in chief nabbed for the cover of the title’s October issue Arlan Hamilton, the black and queer woman who founded venture capital firm Backstage Capital and earlier this year started […]
Bloomberg hires Fast Company’s Carr for tech team
Tom Giles, Bloomberg’s executive editor of global technology, sent out the following announcement on Friday: We are very excited to welcome Austin Carr to Bloomberg’s Global Technology team. Austin joins from Fast Company, where he’s worked as a senior features writer covering the intersection of technology and design. In eight years at the magazine, Austin […]
Fast Company agrees to recognize union
Fast Company magazine has agreed to recognize the union representing its workers. The workers voted in June to unionize with the Writers Guild of America East. A “clear majority” of Fast Company‘s 40 editorial, social and photo staffers signed union cards to make the Writers Guild their collective-bargaining representative, the union announced at that time. […]
