Why Forbes burned a print story and put its Thiel coverage online
Randall Lane is the editor in chief of Forbes magazine, a position he started five years ago. Lane previously worked at Forbes in a variety of positions — reporter, staff writer and Washington bureau chief from 1991 to 1997, authoring five cover stories. Lane has also been was editor at large at Newsweek and The Daily […]
Data is at the core of everything with Forbes
Jemma Brackebush of Digiday profiles Salah Zalatino, vice president of product development of Forbes, about how data drives everything at the business magazine’s operations. Brackebush writes, “Zalatimo has found the perfect analogy: that of building a house. ‘I’m the architect of all technology products at Forbes,’ said Zalatimo, who’s responsible for designing and controlling the user experience, layout […]
Forbes president: Print magazine still the front door
Ellen Cools of Folio interviewed Mike Federle, the new president of Forbes Media. Here is an excerpt: Folio: What about the print product? Federle: The print product remains the front door to our brand. Especially when you start looking at all the licensed products around the world — with the exception of France — it always starts with the print […]
Yahoo Finance, Dow Jones websites gain traffic in June; Business Insider falls
Yahoo Finance and the Dow Jones & Co. websites saw gains in readers in June, while Business Insider slumped, according to data from the comScore Multiplatform report for the month. Yahoo Finance remained the No. 1 business and finance website for the month with 75.5 million unique visitors, up from 71.2 million in May. And […]
Forbes.com mobile traffic up 30% in first half of 2016
Forbes Media CEO Mike Perlis sent the following to the staff about its first-half results ahead of a company town hall meeting on Friday: We’ve reached an important inflection point in our history. Over the last few years, Forbes has evolved into a digitally-driven global media and branding company with technology at the center of […]
Forbes Media promotes Federle to president
Forbes Media announced Monday the promotion of chief operating officer Mike Federle to the additional title of president Federle has served as the COO since 2011. Mike Perlis will retain the title of CEO of Forbes Media and will assume the additional role of executive chairman. In his new position, reporting to Perlis, Federle will […]
Forbes chief product officer says print is not dying
Lewis Dvorkin, the chief product officer at Forbes, writes about how the business magazine’s print readership is rising during a time when many predicted the death of print. Dvorkin writes, “Not so fast—at least for FORBES. Check out the top chart below. Our magazine readership is growing, as measured by market research firm MRI, the […]
Forbes to launch edition in France
Forbes announced plans Wednesday to launch a French edition of its business magazine in partnership with 360BusinessMedia. The Forbes.fr website, which will feature content in French, is expected to launch first in the Fall of 2016, followed by related live events and a magazine supplement at a later date. The content of Forbes.fr will consist of 70 […]
Senior VP of product development and video leaving Forbes
Andrea Spiegel, the senior vice president of product development and video at Forbes, is leaving the business news organization. In an email to the staff, Spiegel writes: Hi all – After 8 years and approximately 160,000 miles on Amtrak, I have decided to leave Forbes and shift the balance, to stay put for a while […]
Forbes launches new effort aimed at women
Forbes, which in April launched a podcast series aimed at young women entrepreneurs, launched Wednesday an effort across its website to provide more content aimed at women called Women@Forbes. Approximately 28 percent of monthly visitors to Forbes.com are millennial women, and the goal of Women@Forbes is to provide content to help them in their careers. There […]
