Forbes seeks newsletter editor
Forbes is looking for a newsletter editor to manage the production and execution of its growing newsletter portfolio, ranging in topics from finance and career insights to consumer tech and venture capital news. DUTIES: Work directly with journalists and other teams (including product and business side) and serve as the main point of contact for […]
Forbes Advisor hires Hall as assistant assigning editor
Forbes Advisor has hired Alena Hall as an assistant assigning editor. She will focus on health and wellness stories. Hall has been a freelance health writer for VeryWell since May 2020. She also was deputy editor of Swirled and a newsletter writer for Inside.com. She also worked as an associate editor at The Huffington Post and as […]
How Forbes hopes to use data to build something better
Max Willens of Digiday examines ForbesOne, the business publisher’s first party data platform. Willens writes, “While the earliest version of ForbesOne began with 22 audience segments built using user behavior across its website, the platform now synthesizes data from 70 different datasets, allowing every part of the organization to have a nearly real-time picture of how […]
Berger hired by Forbes Advisor as assistant assigning editor
Sarah Berger has been hired by Forbes Advisor as an assistant assigning editor. She started on Monday. Berger had been working for LendingTree, writing about savings and deposits. She previously worked at the CNBC Make It site tcovering entrepreneurs. Berger has also written and reported stories for TheCashlorette, Bankrate.com’s millennial money website. She also wrote a […]
Cryptocurrency exchange drops defamation suit against Forbes
The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange has dismissed a defamation lawsuit against Forbes three months after filing it, reports Nikhilesh De and Zack Seward of CoinDesk. De and Seward report, “The exchange filed the suit against the century-old business publication in November alleging a story by reporter Michael del Castillo (formerly of CoinDesk) and contributor Jason Brett […]
The strategy behind Forbes newsletter expansion
Randall Lane, the chief content officer and editor in chief of Forbes, writes about its newsletter strategy where it’s hiring business journalists to write about specific topics. Lane writes, “Journalist Entrepreneurs will earn a salary and benefits like other staffers, and be able to leverage our editors, fact-checkers, lawyers and designers. But then they’ll split […]
Forbes drops “30 under 30” trip to Bermuda
Forbes magazine has decided not to go forward with a Bermuda retreat for some of its “30 under 30” entrepreneurs, reports Archie Bland of The Guardian. Bland reports, “But within hours of the Guardian’s inquiry on Monday, a spokesperson for the magazine said it was ‘not proceeding with this initiative’. They claimed that the trip had been […]
Forbes plans to hire 20-30 for newsletter initiative
Mark Stenberg of Business Insider writes about the initiative at Forbes to expand its newsletter business. Stemberg writes, “Third, the publication will be hiring 20 to 30 journalists as staff writers. These ‘Journalist Entrepreneurs’ will write newsletters about subjects they have expertise in, as well as articles for the Forbes website, which makes them eligible […]
Forbes hires Abreu as assistant editor for money
Forbes has hired Maria Abreu to be an assistant editor on the money team. She started on Tuesday. Abreu recently graduated from New York University with a master’s degree in journalism and international relations. She has been working for the Latin America News Dispatch and for Pavement Pieces, where she wrote about the COVID-19 struggles […]
Forbes hires Szkutak to cover venture capital
Forbes has hired reporter Rebecca Szkutak to cover venture capital. She will start in February. Szkutak is currently a reporter at PEI’s Venture Capital Reporter, where she has been since August 2019. She previously worked as a reporter for PEI’s Private Debt Investor. Szkutak freelanced for Colorado Inno in 2018 and interned for Boston Inno. She […]
