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 […]
Native ad to appear on next Forbes cover
A native ad for Fidelity will appear on the cover of the latest issue of Forbes, which hits newsstands on Monday, reports Michael Sebastian of Advertising AGe. Sebastian writes, “The Fidelity ad on Forbes’ cover teases an infographic about retirement, which is the editorial theme of the issue. Fidelity paid for the two-page infographic to […]
Forbes.com was hacked in November
Chinese hackers hijacked Forbes.com and used the business news site as part of an attack on the U.S. defense and financial industry, according to cybersecurity researchers. Andrea Peterson of The Washington Post writes, “For three days late last year, the news site’s ‘Thought of the Day’ widget, which appears when readers visit the site, was compromised — seamlessly […]
The making of a superstar business journalist
Lewis Dvorkin, the chief product officer at Forbes, writes about how business journalists will be considered superstars in the future based on data. Dvorkin writes, “For December 2014, I took a look at Moat’s numbers for Matt Herper, our highly respected pharma reporter. His individual posts (I stopped counting at 500 viewed for that month) […]
Latest Forbes has advertising “cover” behind real cover
Lewis Dvorkin, the chief product officer for Forbes, writes about how the latest issue of Forbes include a cover inside the normal cover from one of its advertisers. Dvorkin writes, “In our new Under 30 issue (on newsstands now and available on Forbes.com Monday morning) we’re innovating again. The FORBES editorial cover on Oculus Rift’s […]
Forbes seeks reporter for wealth team
Forbes is looking for an inquisitive, investigative reporter to cover the world’s most successful—and richest—capitalists. This person will join the Wealth team, the group behind Forbes’ largest franchises: The Forbes 400, World’s Billionaires and America’s Richest Families. The role is twofold. The first part involves one of the greatest hunts in business journalism: estimating the […]
Forbes to launch Austrian edition in 2015
Forbes announced Wednesday the launch of its latest local-language edition, Forbes Austria, in partnership with Business Consulting & Media and its Austrian branch MediaRey AT GmbH. The first issue will be published in the beginning of April 2015. The content of Forbes Austria will consist of 60 percent Austrian business news, commentary and features, and […]
Forbes finishing year with record readership
Forbes Media announced Wednesday that it will finish 2014 with record readership for Forbes magazine and visitors to Forbes.com. According to recently released GfK MRI Fall 2014 data, Forbes magazine has achieved its highest readership ever in the U.S., increasing by over 1.5 million readers in the past year to 6.7 million. Forbes increased its […]
Forbes seeks deputy biz editor
Forbes is looking for a deputy business editor who can identify, recruit and manage a network of outside outstanding freelance contributors across a range of industries, but with a primary focus on entertainment, media & sports business. The deputy editor work in concert with other Forbes editors, staff writers and producers to attack the news […]
