Forbes seeks wealth intern
The Forbes Wealth team seeks an inquisitive, investigative intern/reporter to help cover the world’s wealthiest people. That person will be an integral part of the team that compiles and produces one of our most popular issues, the World’s Billionaires. Responsibilities include extensive research on wealthy individuals and spreadsheet manipulation. Ability to work through early or […]
Forbes media columnist moving to San Francisco
Jeff Bercovici, a media reporter for Forbes magazine out of New York, will be moving to its San Francisco office early next year. In an email to Talking Biz News, Bercovici writes: Basically, I’ll be moving out shortly after the new year to become a senior editor in our San Francisco bureau. The focus will […]
Forbes introduces anonymous tip function
Business magazine Forbes unveiled Tuesday an online submissions system of the kind pioneered by WikiLeaks for securely, anonymously sharing files and tips with its journalists called SafeSource. Andy Greenberg of the Forbes staff writes, “Anyone can visit Safesource.forbes.com and use the anonymity software Tor to upload sensitive documents or messages for our reporters. Tor protects […]
What Jim Michaels taught Forbes journalists
Paul Brown, a former Forbes writer, writes about what he learned while working for the magazine’s famoous managing editor. Brown writes, “This is going to be a blog post that tells you: You need to make your communications even shorter; your images more vivid and you darn well better have a point of view. “These are […]
Study: Branded content helps Forbes’ advertisers
A new study by IPG Media and commissioned by Forbes Media shows that readers looking at pages with branded content were 41 percent more likely to express an intent to buy the brand versus those who saw a regular Web page with no branded content, reports Lucia Moses of Adweek. Moses writes, “The study also […]
ForbesLife names Solomon its new editor
Forbes Media announced Wednesday the appointment of Michael Solomon as editor of ForbesLife, Forbes’ luxury lifestyle magazine, effective immediately. He will report to Forbes magazine editor Randall Lane. Richard Nalley had been the publication’s editor. He is now an editor at large. Solomon will be responsible for the day-to-day editorial content and editing of ForbesLife […]
Biz magazines underperform industry in third quarter
The 14 business magazines followed by the Publishers Information Bureau underperformed the magazine industry in the third quarter in terms of advertising revenue and advertising pages. The business magazines recorded ad revenue of $279.3 million, a decline of 1.7 percent, in the third quarter. The ad pages fell 3.2 percent in the third quarter to […]
Forbes ad network to account for 20 percent of 2013 revenue
Business magazine Forbes announced that its three-year-old native ad offering BrandVoice will account for about 20 percent of total ad revenue this year, rising to an estimated 30 percent in 2014. David Taintor of Adweek reports, “On the strength of BrandVoice, as well as programmatic sales, digital ad revenue has exceeded print for the company, as digital […]
Forbes seeking biz journalist in Asia
Forbes Asia currently seeks a full time Business Journalist. This position will be located Asia and will report to our Editor of Forbes Asia, who is located in New York, NY. High Level Job Description: This Business Journalist will have the opportunity to build and lead a team of freelance researchers and Forbes licensee partners […]
Forbes.com hits 50 million unique viewers in September
Forbes chief product officer Lewis Dvorkin reports Monday that the business magazine’s website has hit 50 million unique viewers in September, a new record. Dvorkin writes, “Three years ago this month, we launched the beginnings of a new publishing platform for our staffers and contributors, now a mix of 1,200 journalists, authors, academics and other […]
