New Fast Company editor wants to hold companies accountable
Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke of Women’s Wear Dailyinterviewed new Fast Company editor Stephanie Mehta about her plans for the magazine. Here is an excerpt: WWD: Reese Witherspoon is on the summer cover. Is putting more celebrities on the cover part of a new direction for Fast Company? Stephanie Mehta: Fast Company has always done crossover people. We […]
Khosla, editor at Fast Company Digital, leaves to become professor
Anjali Khosla, editor of Fast Company Digital, is leaving the magazine to become an assistant professor at The New School in the Journalism + Design program. At Fast Company, Khosla wrote features, news articles, and essays for print and online since 2012. In 2014, she and her colleagues won ASME’s Magazine of the Year award. Khosla […]
Fast Company rolls out two podcasts, YouTube series
Fast Company is introducing two podcast series and a YouTube video series a month after premiering three new YouTube weekly series, reports Sara Guaglione of MediaPost. Guaglione writes, “The two podcast series will be called ‘Secrets of the Most Productive People’ and ‘Creative Conversation.’ They will alternate with new episodes every Wednesday. “‘Secrets of the Most Productive People’ […]
Here is the statement Fast Company’s union organizers sent to management
Fast Company’s union organizing committee sent the following statement to the magazine’s management: Fast Company’s editorial, social, and photo staff has decided to unionize with the Writers Guild of America, East. Because we are committed to Fast Company’s values of supporting progressive, forward-thinking business, we want to make sure we adhere to the best practices–in […]
Fast Company editorial staff votes to unionize
The Fast Company magazine staff has voted to unionize with the Writers Guild of America, reports Matthew Flamm of Crain’s New York Business Flamm reports, “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 Wednesday. “Organizers at the […]
Schnaidt hired as Fast Company creative director
Mike Schnaidt was hired as creative director of Fast Company. Before coming to Fast Company, Schnaidt was the creative director at Men’s Health and menshealth.com, where he received two industry awards: Advertising Age’s “Magazine Of The Year” and Folio’s Integrated Marketing Campaign Award. Previous to that position, Schnaidt held the position of deputy […]
Smalera hired as digital editor at Fast Company
Paul Smalera, the ideas editor at Quartz, has been hired as digital editor of FastCompany. He replaces Noah Robischon, who left last month. Fast Company has also hired a new editor, Stephanie Mehta, in the past month. Smalera has been with Quartz since November 2014. He joined the website from The New York Times, where he was […]
Mehta named new editor of Fast Company magazine
Mansueto Ventures CEO Eric Schurenberg sent out the following announcement on Monday: We have a new editor in chief of Fast Company. Her name is Stephanie Mehta, and if you’ve followed practically any of Fortune’s cover stories in 2013 or 2014 or its Most Powerful Women in Business franchise, or Bloomberg’s worldwide conferences, or (most […]
Fast Company executive editor Robischon departs
Fast Company executive editor Noah Robischon has left the magazine. His last day was Friday. He plans to announce a new project soon. On Facebook, Robischon wrote, “It was a fantastic run, nearly a decade long — and I loved working there. When I arrived, in the depths of a global financial meltdown, I never imagined that […]
Big changes coming for Fast Company
Big changes are coming for Fast Company with the departure of editor Bob Safian and the promotion of Eric Schurenberg to CEO of Mansueto Ventures, the parent of it and Inc. magazine, reports Keith Kelly of the New York Post. Kelly writes,”Schurenberg held a town hall meeting last Thursday to let employees know what is happening — but he may need […]
