How biz news sites added, lost readers in past year
Below you will find the charts from comScore Multi-platform Report US showing the top 15 business and financial news websites for March 2015 and March 2014 in terms of unique viewers for each of those months. A few takeaways: 1. Yahoo Finance has lost more than 20 million unique viewers year over year; 2. Business […]
Forbes adjusts to new newsroom
Lewis Dvorkin, the chief product officer at Forbes, writes about its new offices in Jersey City. Dvorkin writes, “For me the best view of all is our open newsroom. We’ve gone from rabbit-hutch offices on eight floors to minicultures on two floors. Everyone’s connected by a central staircase, with common areas for people to gather […]
Forbes to pay contributors less for old content
Forbes has decided to pay its online contributors less for stories that are clicked on that are more than 90 days old, reports Jim Romenesko. Romenesko writes, “Assistant managing editor Kerry Dolan writes in a memo [with my boldface]: “”We [currently] pay the same for every view, whether it comes from new content, or content […]
Forbes seeks senior producers
Forbes Media seeks senior producers to be active participants in our expanding newsroom for the era of social media. Senior producers will work directly with editors, reporters, data analysts, social media editors and others to produce and package daily and feature content for our domestic audience of 35 million and another 10 million international visitors. […]
Forbes seeks deputy editors
Forbes Media seeks deputy editors to be leaders in our expanding newsroom for the era of social media. Deputy editors will work directly with top editors to identify, recruit and manage freelance contributors and topic experts across a range of industries to be part of our industry-leading contributor model. They will be responsible for managing […]
The problem with tech journalism and how to fix it
Eric Jackson writes for Forbes.com about the problems with technology reporting and makes suggestions on how to fix its issues. Jackson writes, “Why is there so little criticism of tech companies by mainstream business journalists today? “Every other day, we read someone opining about if we’re in a tech bubble or not, but I rarely […]
Forbes buys photo sharing application
Forbes Media announced Monday the acquisition of the private photo sharing app Camerama. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Effective immediately, the founder of Camerama, Salah Akram Zalatimo, will join the company as vice president of mobile products, reporting to Forbes Media chief product officer Lewis Dvorkin. Zalatimo will assume the responsibility of […]
The leader at the helm of Forbes
Timothy Dumas of Greenwich magazine profiles Forbes Media chief Mike Perlis, who was brought in by the Forbes family to turn around its operation. Dumas writes, “But what differentiates Forbes from the competitors? ‘Fortune and Forbes compete in print pretty powerfully,’ Perlis says. ‘But we’re the market share leader.’ This is partly so, he believes, […]
Forbes hires WSJ staffer Chaykowski
Reporter Kathleen Chaykowski will be joining Forbes in San Francisco on March 30 to be part of its tech reporting team. She will report on tech in Silicon Valley and beyond, with a focus on social media. Chaykowski joins Forbes from The Wall Street Journal in New York, where she is a news writer and […]
How to disrupt the biz press newsletter business
Daniel Mark Harrison, former Asia correspondent for TheStreet.com, writes about strategies that would disrupt the lucrative newsletter business used by Forbes, Fortune and others. Harrison writes, “Disruption happens when a technology that has implied scale-bound leverage is utilized to offer an ultimately (empirically speaking) lower-quality product to a market that cannot afford or does not […]
