Remembering Jim Michaels of Forbes
Pranay Gupte writes for The Huffington Post about former Forbes editor Jim Michaels who died a decade ago. Gupte writes, “When Malcolm Forbes asked him to join Forbes in 1954, it was a natural fit. Forbes was then a somewhat moribund family-owned business magazine. The magazine needed the sort of probity and probing approach that Jim brought to […]
Forbes does away with publisher title
Forbes has eliminated the publisher title from its masthead, reports Keith Kelly of the New York Post. Kelly writes, “Rich Karlgaard was named publisher of Forbes in 2002 after the tech spinoff title he was editing at the time, Forbes ASAP, was shut down. For a while, the plan worked brilliantly. “A company spokeswoman said […]
Schaefer, senior editor for investing, leaves Forbes
Steve Schaefer, the senior editor for investing at Forbes, has left the business magazine. Schaefer, who also played on the magazine’s softball team, had been at Forbes for 10 years. His last day was Friday. Schaefer is going to work at New York City-based Hewes Communications, which provides media-relations services and communications consulting to some of […]
Forbes family settles dispute with new owners
A legal battle over the takeover of Forbes magazine has been settled after the Chinese investors who bought the media company in 2014 agreed to an out-of-court deal with the Forbes family, reports David Bond and James Fontanella-Khan of the Financial Times. Bond and Fontanella-Khan write, “However, both IWM and Forbes say the dispute has […]
Forbes and its coverage of frenemy Trump
Jasper Jackson of The Guardian looks at how Forbes magazine has covered Donald Trump over the years. Jackson writes, “Trump has disputed Forbes’s evaluations of his wealth repeatedly over the years, leading its chief product officer, Lewis Dvorkin, to write a column titled ‘forever frenemies’ in a 2015 issue, which featured Trump on the cover and […]
Forbes to launch four new podcasts
Forbes announced Thursday that it plans to launch four new podcasts in the next two months. The new programs — “The Forbes Interview,” “Forbes Under 30,” “Forbes Lists” and “Forbes Sports Money” — will be available on PodcastOne.com, the PodcastOne app and iTunes. “We’re excited to build on our successful partnership with PodcastOne, and launch […]
What’s behind Forbes plan for new delivery formats
Lewis Dvorkin, the chief product officer at Forbes, writes about the business magazine’s plans to expand into new delivery formats. Dvorkin writes, “In a related first, we released a batch of VR videos (360 videos on mobile devices, full VR experiences with goggles) shot at the FORBES 30 Under 30 Summit in Boston last October. […]
Forbes posting content on social network ahead of its own site
Forbes is using Snapchat to reveal part of its “30 under 30” list of influential entrepreneurs, marking the first time the publisher is releasing content on a social network ahead of its own property, reports Lucia Moses of Digiday. Moses writes, “Yesterday Forbes published about half the 30 names, including Margot Robbie, Simone Biles and Von Miller, on […]
The strategy behind Forbes new book business
Ian Burrell of The Drum looks at the strategy behind Forbes new book imprint. Burrell writes, “It is a bet based not on the traditional model of championing titles that shift units at retail. Rather, it speaks to the very modern phenomenon of using a book as a personal branding tool. In today’s world of business, […]
Forbes starts book publishing unit
Forbes Media announced Monday that it is starting a book publishing operation in conjunction with Advantage Media Group. ForbesBooks will provide a variety of services, including a publishing cycle that cuts the typical timeline in half, and ForbesBooks’ authors retain ownership of the rights to their work. Authors will also have the opportunity to submit […]
