Forbes hires Lucas as assistant editor for leadership and communities
Forbes has hired Emmy Lucas as an assistant editor for its leadership and communities team. She started on Monday. Lucas will be working across various leadership and career sections as well as on lists such as Forbes 30 Under 30. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia in […]
Schaffner joins Automotive News as staff reporter
Automotive News has tapped Carly Schaffner as a staff reporter covering the Southern California-based auto brands and burgeoning EV startups. Recently, she was an assigning editor at Forbes Wheels, an automotive vertical focused on providing product news and industry trends. Before that, she served as managing editor at Trucks.com, a news site which provides insights on trucking […]
Forbes appoints Marcus assistant managing editor
Forbes has tapped Jeffrey Marcus as assistant managing editor overseeing the Forbes Contributor Network. In his new role, Marcus will lead a team of producers and editors focused on overseeing the Contributor Network of writers and experts to create engaging content across all beats. He will also be working with the Product, Video, Social, Audience […]
Forbes Advisor hires Riquier to cover housing and mortgages
Forbes Advisor has hired MarketWatch.com reporter Andrea Riquier to cover mortgages and the housing market. She had been covering the housing market at MarketWatch.com but most recently had ben covering the exchange traded fund beat for the publication. Riquier has been with MarketWatch.com for nearly four years. Prior to that, she worked as a reporter for Investor’s Business Daily, Debtwire and Bloomberg. […]
Binance is investing $200 million into Forbes
Binance, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, is making a $200 million investment in Forbes, reports Hugh Son of CNBC. Son reports, “The funds will help Forbes execute on its plan to merge with a publicly-traded special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, in the first quarter, according to people with knowledge of the deal. “Investors have grown skeptical of SPAC […]
An analysis of what’s wrong with Forbes.com
Joshua Benton of Nieman Journalism Lab writes about the problems with Forbes.com. Benton writes, “Forbes’ staff of journalists could produce great work, sure. But there were only so many of them, and they cost a lot of money. Why not open the doors to Forbes.com to a swarm of outside ‘contributors’ — barely vetted, unedited, expected […]
Forbes seeks a news desk reporter
Forbes believes in the power of entrepreneurial capitalism and uses it on various platforms to ignite the conversations that drive systemic change in business, culture and society. We celebrate success and are committed to using our megaphone to drive diversity, equity and inclusion. Forbes has recently announced plans to go public and to be listed […]
Forbes seeks assistant editor for leadership and communities
Forbes Media seeks an Assistant Editor to support the Forbes Leadership + Communities team. This is a junior position appropriate for candidates with a background covering or interest in business leaders, innovators and disruptors, as well as a demonstrable foundation in reporting, writing and multimedia journalism. Assistant Editors are the linchpin of the Forbes newsroom. […]
Forbes promotes Voytko to senior entertainment reporter
Lisette Voytko is now a senior entertainment reporter at Forbes focusing on deal making and earnings in Hollywood, television, music, influencing and everything in between. Previously, she was an entertainment reporter, and before that, has served as a wealth reporter and breaking news reporter. She has also worked freelance. She was formerly a politics reporter […]
Levine departs Politico for Forbes
Alexandra Levine has joined Forbes as a senior writer, tech and innovation. She comes from Politico, where she reported on privacy and data protection. Before that, she covered the intersection of tech, government and public policy. She was also the author of Politico’s popular daily newsletter, Morning Tech. Before that, Levine was a Metro reporter […]