Former Forbes editor Michaels is dead
Former Forbes editor James Michaels, who ran the business magazine for nearly four decades, has died at the age of 86 from pneumonia, according to a story on the magazine’s web site. The story, written by Steve, Bob, Kip and Tim Forbes, said, “When he took the helm of Forbes in 1961–he had joined the […]
Forbes.com names new managing editor
Carl Lavin has been named managing editor of Forbes.com on Monday, according to the business magazine. He will report to Forbes.com editor Paul Maidment. Lavin joins Forbes.com from The Philadelphia Inquirer where he was deputy managing editor for online and multimedia. Previously he was responsible for foreign, national, metro, science, health and business news. He […]
Klebnikov Fund winner named
Anton Kazarin, editor-in-chief of the business magazine group Delovoy Kvartal, has been named winner of the 2007 Paul Klebnikov Fund Prize for Excellence in Journalism. Kazarin will be honored at ICFJ’s Annual Awards Dinner at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 13. Klebnikov was an editor for Forbes […]
Forbes aims new magazine at women
Robert MacMillan of Reuters writes about the new Forbes Life Executive Woman magazine that is being introduced this month and is aimed at women executives. MacMillan wrote, “The first issue has a profile of JPMorgan Private Bank Chief Executive Mary Callahan Erdoes, dubbed ‘uber-banker to the super-rich,’ as well as women who made partner at […]
Pushing for change inside Forbes
Keith Kelly of the New York Post writes Monday that rock star Bono and Elevation Partners, who bought a minority stake in Forbes last year, are pushing for more changes at the business magazine publisher. Kelly wrote, “Now, 12 months later, with the Forbes family selling its longtime headquarters building in Greenwich Village and its […]
BusinessWeek.com's page view woes
Peter Kafka of Silicon Valley Insider writes Wednesday that the real reason why BusinessWeek.com has seen a decrease in its page views is not because it doesn’t have — as some have suggested — enough fresh content, doesn’t do enough with video, and has lousy design and navigation. Kafka wrote, “None of this rings true. (Disclosure: […]
NewsBios passes 7,000 bios sold mark
NewsBios, the service that provides profiles of influential business journalists, says it has now sold more than 7,000 journalist dossiers, each for $69.95. Unlike ‘official’ bios and resumes that news organizations and individual reporters provide the public, NewsBios dossiers include pertinent public information about the reporters and editors it investigates. Recent “best sellers” include Andrew […]
Forbes helicopters are gone
Keith Kelly of The New York Post writes Wednesday that Forbes magazine has sold its two helicopters. Kelly wrote, “Sources say that Elevation Partners, an investment firm that includes U2 frontman Bono and Roger McNamee, is looking for rapid growth and a big Internet play, and like most investors, wants to see results sooner rather […]
Future of Business Media conference to be held in October
PaidContent.org is organizing a conference on the future of the business and trade media, to be held Oct. 30 in New York at the Waldorf Astoria. Speakers include Jim Spanfeller, the CEO of Forbes.com, and Gordon Crovitz, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal. Also speaking will be David Carey, the publisher of Conde Nast […]
Got to get my picture on the cover
Wallace Immen of The Toronto Globe and Mail writes that there’s a golden payoff for an executive who gets a feature write-up in the business press or a photo on the cover of a financial magazine. That’s according to results of a new study of how the compensation of 1,500 CEOs of companies in the United […]
