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 […]
How Forbes has changed its online content, and improved its metrics
Lewis Dvorkin, the chief product officer at Forbes, writes about how the business magazine has changed its online content while also improving its traffic. Dvorkin writes, “FORBES certainly played its part, working with the portals (then the fire hoses of the Internet) to drive traffic to the stories it transformed into photo galleries — 10-15 […]
Top 10 biz journalism events for 2011
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Here are the top 10 events in business journalism in the past 12 months: 10. Randall Lane’s hiring as editor of Forbes in August. The business magazine has undergone a design and conceptual overhaul under Lewis Dvorkin. Now it’s time for Lane to execute with improved content that will draw in […]
Biz journalists on Forbes 30 under 30 media list
Media reporter Brian Stelter of the New York Times, “SquawkBox” producer Maneet Ahuja and Daniel Fletcher, social media director for Bloomberg News and Businessweek, are among the business journalists listed on the 30 under 30 list of media professionals by Jeff Bercovici of Forbes. Fletcher, writes Bercovici, is a “a social media whiz kid who […]
Forbes launches new mobile site
Forbes announce Tuesday the launch of its new mobile site for both IOS and Android devices, with a beta version available for Blackberries. The Forbes mobile site features a new search option that visually displays related people, places and company results from Forbes lists. Search results can be clicked on and expanded in a second […]
Forbes to launch Estonian edition
Forbes announced Wednesday plans to launch its 21st local-language edition, Forbes Estonia, in partnership with SK Publishing Group in Estonia. The launch will be held in Talinn, Estonia, with the first issue to be published at the beginning of March 2012. Forbes Estonia will have an initial circulation of 20,000. The content of Forbes Estonia […]
Forbes to launch Georgia edition
Forbes announced Monday the introduction of its 20th local-language edition, Forbes Georgia, in partnership with Media Partners Georgia. The new edition is scheduled to launch on Dec. 8 in the Georgian language, and will be distributed throughout Georgia. The distribution at launch will be 3,000 copies. Revaz Sakevarishvili – who previously held senior level editorial […]
“Shame on you” a popular phrase in Forbes letters
Jim Romenesko got to the bottom of the matter as to what phrases appear most often in letters to the editor to Forbes magazine. Romenesko writes, “A few months ago, someone asked on Quora: ‘Why must at least one letter to the editor in every magazine contain the word kudos?’ “Forbes managing editor Bruce Upbin […]
Is ForbesWoman too soft?
J. Maureen Henderson writes on Forbes.com about criticism that the business magazine’s female-oriented publication has received for being too lightweight in its coverage. Henderson writes, “Never one to let sleeping dogs lie, I decided to use Thompson’s criticism as a jumping off point to assess whether the dissatisfaction A) was widespread (answer: yes) and B) […]
Mistreating an underling at Forbes in the 1980s
Kerry Hannon writes on Forbes.com about what happened to her when she was a young journalist at the business magazine in the 1980s. Hannon writes, “I was a young reporter at Forbes back in the mid-80s and assigned to do the legwork for a well-known female columnist’s column. “It was an honor. I loved tackling […]
