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 […]
Forbes.com hits record in April
Forbes.com had 45.8 million unique visitors in April according to comScore, a record for the business news website. That’s an increase of 30.2 percent from the 35.2 million unique visitors it had in April 2015. In comparison, CNNMoney.com had 25.8 million unique visitors, Bloomberg.com saw 24.9 million unique visitors, and WSJ.com saw 23.8 million unique […]
Fortune’s Primack: Forbes, you ignorant slut
Fortune writer Dan Primack takes issue Thursday with how rival business magazine Forbes lowered the net worth of Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes to zero because of problems at the company. Primack writes, “Forbes gave various explanations for its revisions ― which were breathlessly aggregated by other media outlets ― including that Holmes’ stake in her […]
Forbes loosens policy on ad blockers
Business magazine Forbes has apparently loosened its policy preventing readers using ad blockers from accessing its site, reports Laura Hazard Owen of Nieman Lab. Owen writes, “Forbes was still preventing me from visiting the site with an adblocker on Tuesday, but several of my colleagues accessed it with adblockers on. Forbes did not respond to […]
Forbes is developing mobile-only premium site
Lewis Dvorkin, the chief product officer at Forbes, writes about how the company is developing a mobile-only premium site. Dvorkin writes, “For months, we’ve been developing a mobile-only premium Web site experience. Think in terms of cards — summaries of text, graphics, quotes and much more that can be linked in chains. Now, we’re putting […]
Forbes seeks associate content producer for tech
Forbes Media seeks an Associate Content Producer to support the Tech: Games and Science channels in our Jersey City, NJ, office. Producers are the linchpin of the Forbes newsroom, working at the intersection of editorial (editors, staff writers and outside contributors) and internal teams including social, sales, product and digital production. Responsibilities include: Work on front lines of […]
Forbes seeks visual storytelling editor
Forbes is looking for a Visual Storytelling Editor to join its Mobile team, helping mold our editorial content into its most compelling form. The ideal candidate can work with our staff and writers to re-imagine the traditional 800-word article form and tell the same story in a highly shareable and engaging way. S/he will also be able to create robust data visualizations in […]
Forbes seeks associate content producer
Forbes Media seeks an Associate Content Producer to support the Entertainment/Media/Retail channel in our Jersey City, NJ, office. Producers are the lynchpin of the Forbes newsroom, working at the intersection of editorial (editors, staff writers and outside contributors) and internal teams including social, sales, product and digital production. Responsibilities include: Work on front lines of channel and section […]
Real estate staffer Carlyle leaving Forbes
Erin Carlyle, who has covered real estate for Forbes for the past two years, is leaving the magazine. Here is the email she sent to her colleagues: Tomorrow is my last day at Forbes. I am leaving to take a job at Houzz, a Palo Alto, Calif., start-up within walking distance of my apartment, where […]
