Forbes faces long work hours, low pay and a lack of promotions
Claire Atkinson of Insider writes about the culture at Forbes, where the staff has complained about long working long hours for low pay, a lack of promotions, and workplace inequity. Atkinson writes, “While many businesses have suffered from the “Great Resignation,” Forbes has lost scores of top staff — including its head of communications, head […]
Forbes hires Ivry as executive editor of enterprise
Forbes has hired longtime business journalist Bob Ivry to be executive editor of enterprise. It’s new position that will oversee value-added reporting. Ivry will report to editor in chief Randall Lane. Ivry had been at Bloomberg News before leaving in 2021. He had been at Bloomberg since 2006 as a reporter and editor and has […]
Forbes hires Hyatt as senior reporter
Forbes has hired John Hyatt as a senior reporter on the wealth beat. He was previously an intern on the wealth team. He was also a contributing writer at Nasdaq and was an account director at Ditto PR, where he dealt with fintech, crypto and blockchain clients. He has also worked at Prosek Partners in […]
Forbes promotes Hallaway to video director and editor
Forbes has promoted Riley Hallaway to the position of video director and editor. He has been a junior video editor since May 2019. He has been creating cinematic short docs and explainer videos on a variety of topics from business and politics, to technology and the environment. Previously, Hallaway worked as a video producer in Cape Town, […]
Investment firm looking to buy Forbes for $620 million
Investment firm GSV is working on a bid to buy Forbes Media at a $620 million valuation as an alternative to Forbes’ announced SPAC merger, reports Sara Fischer and Kia Kokalitcheva of Axios. FIscher and Kokalitcheva report, “Forbes previously announced plans to go public via a SPAC merger that was set to close in Q4 of […]
Forbes hires Farivar of NBC News as a senior reporter
Forbes magazine has hired Cyrus Farivar from NBC News to be a senior reporter doing tech investigations. He has been a investigative tech reporter at NBC News in San Francisco. He will start his new position on Jan. 3. In addition to being a radio producer and author, Farivar was most recently a senior tech policy reporter […]
Forbes EIC Lane, reporter testify before Trump grand jury
Forbes chief content officer Randall Lane writes about why he and one of the magazine’s reporters testified before a grand jury probing former President Donald Trump and why it fought the subpoena. Lane writes, “After months of objections, on Wednesday, the judge overseeing this grand jury process ordered us to testify, but limited the scope to simply […]
Antoniuk joins Forbes Ukraine as tech reporter
Forbes Ukraine has hired Daryna Antoniuk as a technology reporter. She joins from Kyiv Post in Ukraine, where she is a tech and business reporter. Kyiv Post is Ukraine’s English-language newspaper and winner of the 2014 Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism. With her new role at Forbes, she will still be involved […]
Mehta swaps Forbes India for The Telegraph
Pankti Mehta, senior assistant editor at Forbes India, has left after more than 3 years to join The Telegraph in London as a multimedia editor on the new newsroom innovation team. She was also editor of BlackBook Magazine, a monthly magazine that covers the business of luxury. She has also worked freelance as a project […]
Forbes assistant editor Kreznar departing for new job
Forbes assistant editor Christian Kreznar is moving on to an editing role at the Council on Foreign Relations. Kreznar has been at Forbes since March 2018. He previously worked at Harper’s magazine and the Open Sky Policy Institute. Kreznar holds a bachelor’s degree from Carleton College in political science and government.
