NYFWA Impact winner Baker-White discusses TikTok coverage

Emily Baker-White, recipient of the New York Financial Writers’ Association’s 2024 Impact Award for Distinguished Financial Journalism, discusses how she broke one of the biggest tech stories. Her groundbreaking series of articles on privacy breaches at TikTok, the world’s most popular social media app, at both Forbes and BuzzFeed News. Her reporting on TikTok, with […]
Lane of Forbes: We are trusted, benefit from consistency

Forbes chief content officer Randall Lane sent out the following to the staff on Thursday: Dear Team Forbes, Two major surveys recently came out that merit spending time with. First, YouGov revealed its annual Trust in Media report, which encompasses 2,000 respondees, and Forbes again excelled, moving up one spot, to 4th place. The three organizations in front of us – […]
Pastis leaves Forbes for Debtwire

Stephen Pastis has left Forbes for a job at Debtwire in New York covering distressed debt. He had been at Forbes for a year. Pastis previously was at the Tampa Bay Business Journal covering technology and innovation. He previously was an intern at Fortune magazine. Pastis also worked at The State, a newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, as an […]
Senior reporter Saul departing Forbes

Derek Saul, a senior reporter at Forbes, is leaving the news organization next week to go to MBA school at New York University. Saul has been with Forbes since June 2021, starting as an intern. He has been covering markets since January 2023. He is a graduate of Duke University.
Forbes CEO shares its AI strategy vision

Forbes CEO Sherry Phillips sent out the following to the staff on Tuesday: Hi all, Last week, a group of leaders from across our company gathered for an off-site to focus on how our business can lead in AI and strategically transform with it in these fast-moving times. As we evolve and build for growth, AI is […]
Forbes hires Di Licosa as reporter on wealth team

Martina Di Licosa has been hired as a reporter on the wealth team at Forbes. She recently graduated from the Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Di Licosa has interned at National Geographic, “Saturday Night Live” and Fox Corp. She received her undergraduate degree from New York University.
Dow Jones passes Reuters, Forbes in website viewers

Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch.com and Barron’s, became the No. 3 business news website in April, passing Reuters and Forbes, according to Comscore data. Dow Jones had 55.4 million unique visitors in April, up 3 percent from 53.8 million. Meanwhile, Reuters reported a 3 percent decline to 54.4 […]
WSJ is most trusted biz news outlet

The Wall Street Journal is the most trusted business news outlet, according to a survey by YouGov. The Journal received a +22 net trust score and was followed closely by Forbes, which held a +19 rating. The net trust score is the percentage point difference between the percentages of U.S. adult citizens who say each […]
Tepper departs Forbes Advisor for Dimension Fund Advisors

Forbes Advisor senior banking reporter Taylor Tepper has left the news organization to become a senior associate for external communications at Dimensional Fund Advisors. He had been focusing on the saving and spending behavior of consumers. Before that, he was the lead editor of the banking vertical at USA Today Blueprint. Before that, Tepper was at Forbes […]
Forbes reporter Farivar departing for startup

Cyrus Farivar, a senior reporter for Forbes magazine, is leaving to join Fire Aside, a startup that makes software for fire departments. His last day will be March 21. He previously was an investigative tech reporter at NBC News in San Francisco. Farivar was also recently a senior tech policy reporter at Ars Technica. He […]