Fortune hires Blum to be energy editor
Fortune has hired Jordan Blum as its energy editor. He is based in Houston. Blum previously was editorial director for Hart Energy and senior oil editor for S&P Global. He also spent nearly five years at the Houston Chronicle as its energy reporter. He also worked at the Houston Business Journal. Blum was Washington bureau chief for The Advocate in Washington, […]
Del Castillo departing Fortune to create consulting firm
Fortune senior reporter Michael del Castillo is leaving the publication to start his own consulting and research firm. He has been at the publication for the past year covering banks with a focus on how new tech is changing Wall Street. He has been at Forbes for the past five years covering cryptocurrencies. Del Castillo joined Forbes from CoinDesk, where he covered cryptocurrency […]
Fortune hires Weiss to write about crypto
Fortune magazine has hired Benjamin Weiss to write about cryptocurrencies. He has been in Dubai as a reporter for DL News for the past year. Weiss previously worked at Fortune as a crypto fellow. He has also written for Harper’s magazine. Weiss holds a bachelor’s degree from Carleton College and a master’s degree from New York University.
Fortune makes key changes to administration
Fortune CEO Anastasia Nyrkovskaya sent out the following to the staff on Tuesday: All, As I have spoken of recently, Fortune has important growth plans for 2025, and to support those plans we are making some key changes that span our organization. Alyson continues to hire into priority areas of F500 coverage while we continue […]
Fortune seeks an autos editor
Fortune is seeking a talented editor to lead our autos and transportation coverage. In this role, you will set the agenda by assigning stories about the people, strategies, and stocks of the biggest Fortune 500 transportation companies, while also reporting and writing. This editor will report to our global head of news and build a […]
Fortune union: We won’t return to office until talks resume
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, a Fortune reporter who leads the editorial union, sent the following to magazine management on Friday: To Fortune management, NewsGuild newsroom employees will not be following the company’s 2025 return-to-office edict until the issue has been properly negotiated as part of a complete contract with the NewsGuild. Our bargaining committee sent the Guild’s […]
Fortune undergoes restructuring, lays off staff
Fortune magazine underwent a restructuring on Thursday that results in laying off an undetermined number of employees. The newsroom layoffs represent a handful of positions, with none in senior roles. Among the layoffs are Kevin Sanchez Farez, an associate video producer, and Nicholas Bailey, head of IT operations and infrastructure. Among other videos, Farez led end-to-end production […]
Weiss returns to Fortune to cover crypto
Ben Weiss has returned to Fortune magazine to cover cryptocurrency news. He left the magazine last year to join DL News to cover cryptocurrencies. For Fortune, Weiss reported on crypto, with a focus on the larger, publicly traded companies that are dabbling in blockchain. Prior to Fortune, he fact-checked for Harper’s Magazine and contributed to Wired, Slate, Rest of World, Gizmodo, Business Insider, […]
Fortune tech correspondent Hays has resigned
Fortune tech correspondent Kali Hays has resigned from the news organization. “It’s an understatement to say the work of scoops and original reporting is difficult and occurs under immense pressure,” she wrote on a social media post. “There are tends of thousands fewer people doing this work when I started 12 years ago, fewer still […]
Fortune hires Nolan to cover tech in London
Fortune has hired Beatrice Nolan as a reporter in London covering technology. She has been at Business Insider as a tech reporter in the UK, covering tech and the future of work, with a focus on artificial intelligence. She joined Insider in January 2022 as a fellow on Insider’s careers desk. Some of her stories and early […]
