Savitz leaving Barron's for Forbes
Forbes Media announced Monday that Eric J. Savitz will be coming to Forbes as the new San Francisco bureau chief, effective Dec. 6. Savitz will lead editorial operations for the San Francisco office while writing regularly for the Forbes web site and magazine. “As Forbes continues to embrace the social media landscape, we are very […]
Top biotech writers named
FierceBiotech, a web site that covers the biotechnology industry, has named its top biotech beat reporters. They are: 1. Adam Feuerstein, TheStreet.com Writes John Carroll of FierceBiotech: “While he doesn’t always get it right — and no one can — his analysis of these companies cannot be ignored. Few biotech writers have his grasp of […]
Reinvention or regression for Forbes?
Lucia Moses of MediaWeek examines Forbes‘ strategy of offering space on its Web site to corporate blogs and other writers. Moses writes, “Meanwhile, editors have been pressured to increasingly rely on nonpaid contributors for the Web, with the goal, as one former editor put it, ‘of not paying anything for content.’ “Traffic to the site […]
More concerns about Forbes and its blogs
Felix Salmon of Reuters writes about a concern he has with companies being able to post information on the Forbes blog system. Salmon writes, “But while I was on the site, I clicked around a little bit, and soon stumbled across this post. ‘The Best Rewards Credit Cards For Your Lifestyle’ is the headline, but […]
Concerns about Forbes' blog strategy
Nat Ives of Advertising Age takes a look Thursday at the blogging strategy at Forbes, which allows companies such as software maker SAP to control content on their blogs, and finds some concerns. Ives writes, “An SAP banner ad appears below the AdVoice flag. And, of course, the standard author bio on the right describes […]
How Forbes is changing journalism
Lewis Dvorkin, who oversees content at Forbes magazine, writes about how the media world is changing how it delivers information about businesses. Dvorkin writes, “Intel, already both a blogger and tweeter, recently launched Free Press, a news section on its corporate web site with technology articles written by Intel staffers (some even have journalism credentials). […]
Forbes to crowd source part of its January issue
Joe Pompeo of The Business Insider reports Friday that Forbes magazine is looking to its readers to shape some of the content for its January issue. Pompeo writes, “The latest of these just got underway: In a move that opinions editor Michael Noer describes as ‘the first ever attempt of its kind,’ Forbes is crowd-sourcing […]
Find critical — and celebratory stories — in business
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE A top business journalist suggested Friday that young business reporters should look for stories that celebrate industry as well as those that are critical and also expressed optimism about the future of journalism. “It’s not something to mourn,” said Carl Lavin, the former managing editor of Forbes.com, who also worked at […]
Former Forbes editor Maidment creates consulting firm
Paul Maidment, a former co-editor of Forbes who resigned earlier this year, has created a consulting firm called Bystander Media. The firm, according to this site, provides “strategic planning, editorial change management and content services for new media and traditional publishers.” Maidment, who resigned from Forbes in June, oversaw its Web operations. He said at […]
Forbes changes promote controversy
Terri Thornton writes for the PBS MediaShift site about the recent changes at Forbes, which have caused some controversy because of its relationship with advertisers. Thornton writes, “Now Forbes has an offering called Advoice, which, like AdSlant, offers paid blog space to advertisers. ‘In this case the marketer or advertiser is part of the Forbes […]
