Forbes using software to generate stories
Forbes is now using Narrative Science software to generate computer-written stories, writes Jason Boog of GalleyCat. Boog writes, “Here’s more about the program, used in one corner of Forbes‘ website: ‘Narrative Science has developed a technology solution that creates rich narrative content from data. Narratives are seamlessly created from structured data sources and can be […]
Staff shuffle at Forbes magazine
Keith Kelly of the New York Post writes Friday about some staff changes occurring at Forbes magazine. Kelly writes, “Among those exiting in recent weeks were three senior editors: Brett Nelson, who resigned to move to Nashville with his girlfriend, Larry Reibstein and William Barrett. “Others veteran staffers who have decamped in recent days include: […]
Brand building around journalists not new at Forbes
Lewis Dvorkin, the chief product officer at Forbes, writes how the business magazine’s focus on building brands around its writers is actually an old strategy. Dvorkin writes, “Our first writer-turned-brand came from Hearst, the big newspaper chain. He was a leading business columnist, author and already a minor celebrity in his own right — he […]
Forbes executive editor resigns
Brett Nelson, the executive editor at Forbes, has resigned and will leave the magazine on Friday, a spokeswoman confirmed to Talking Biz News. He is moving to Tennessee for personal reasons. Nelson has been with the magazine for 14 years. In 2005, he moved over to Forbes.com to launch a section covering entrepreneurs. Nelson actually […]
Forbes journalists building their brands
Forbes chief product officer Lewis Dvorkin writes Tuesday about how some of the business magazine’s journalists are creating a brand for themselves, which helps their careers. Dvorkin writes, “For a new breed of content creator, brand-building on FORBES highlights the potential rewards of Entrepreneurial Journalism: – Andy Greenberg, one of our technology reporters in New […]
Expanding the Forbes editorial base
Lewis Dvorkin, the chief product officer at Forbes, writes in the Feb. 13 issue about how the magazine is expanding its editorial base. Dvorkin writes, “The result of our efforts: a high quality, scalable and efficient model for journalism that enables us to provide FORBES readers with more comprehensive and in-depth business news coverage. “We […]
Why the graphic novel will save business journalism
Aziz Ali of PSFK.com interviews Caleb Melby, the Forbes employee who took on the responsibility of writing “The Zen of Steve Jobs,” a graphic novel that the business magazine just published. Here is an excerpt: How does the creation of this graphic novel reflect on the Forbes brand? People understand that Forbes has a history […]
Biz magazine ad revenue in 2011 outpaces rest of industry
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The 13 business magazines reported ad revenue of $1.24 billion in 2011, up 6.2 percent from the previous year, far outpacing the slight increase for the entire magazine industry, according to data released by the Publishers Information Bureau and analyzed by Talking Biz News. Ad pages also rose 1.4 percent to […]
Forbes.com seeing strong traffic growth
Lewis Dvorkin, the chief product officer at Forbes, writes how the business magazine’s content model online is driving traffic. Dvorkin writes, “Our traffic statistics confirm the anecdotes, observations and theories. According to our internal Omniture numbers, we finished December 2011 with 27.8 million unique visitors, up 80% from a year earlier. Recently released comScore data […]
On the billionaire beat
David Brauer of MinnPost.com writes about Erin Carlyle, a Forbes reporter recently hired to cover billionaires who previously spent some time as a reporter in Minneapolis. Brauer writes, “Carlyle’s own path to the wealth beat is a good illustration that journalism isn’t a straight-line thing. She started at a tiny weekly in San Francisco’s bay […]
