Fortune seeks a reporter in New York
Do you eagerly await the latest inflation numbers? Are you wondering how the AI revolution will play out over the next 10 years? Do you find yourself trying to explain how we might be heading into a recession, even with incredibly low unemployment? Then you might be a perfect fit for a role writing about […]
Fortune seeks a reporter in London
Fortune is seeking a self-motivated reporter who is passionate about bringing the biggest business, economic, and tech news of the day to a global audience. Someone who can pitch a great story, report it out, and collaborate to execute great coverage and must-reads. The reporter in this position will file breaking news, as well as […]
Rea, longtime biz journalist, dies at 72
Alison Rea, a business journalist who worked for BusinessWeek, Fortune and Reuters, has died at the age of 72. An obituary states, “In 1980, Alison made the life-changing decision to get an MBA in finance and international business at New York University which paved the way to her career covering business and banking over the […]
Murray to rejoin WSJ to help with events business
Former Fortune magazine CEO Alan Murray is rejoining The Wall Street Journal to help with its events business, reports Brian Stenberg of Adweek. Stenberg reports that Murray “will play a key role in building out its events business, according to two sources familiar with the move. “The hire was first reported by ADWEEK earlier this week. “Murray and The Wall […]
Bloomberg climbs in biz news site rankings
Bloomberg’s website climbed two spots in the rankings of business news sites in July due to a 21 percent increase in unique visitors, while Fortune magazine dropped out of the top 10, according to the latest statistics from Comscore. Bloomberg is now No. 6, with 27.8 million unique visitors in July, up from 22.9 million […]
Fortune hires Hays as West Coast tech correspondent
Fortune has hired Business Insider reporter Kali Hays to be its West Coast technology correspondent. She has been at Business Insider since September 2021, covering social media and based n Los Angeles. Hays previously worked at Women’s Wear Daily, where she covered media, fashion, beauty and related industries before leaving earlier this year. She joined WWD in February […]
Fortune’s Garfinkle wants to be “interesting, useful or essential” with Term Sheet
Allie Garfinkle of Fortune, who writes its Term Sheet newsletter, was interviewed by VMG Partners about her job. Here is an excerpt: In the PE / VC world, your daily newsletter Term Sheet is one of our first reads of the day. With how busy this corner of the world can be, how do you go […]
CNN Business, The Street drop out of top 10 biz news sites
CNN Business and TheStreet.com dropped out of the top 10 business news sites in June due to double-digit declines in unique visitors, according to comScore data. CNN Business, which had been No. 9, fell to No 11 after its unique visitors fell 16 percent to 15.9 million in June. TheStreet.com, previously No. 10, fell to […]
How Shontell is moving the Fortune brand forward
Tiffany Chang of NYU’s Journalism Crossroads spoke with Fortune editor in chief Alyson Shontell about her job and why she took it. Here is an excerpt: It is so different running a media company now, more so than it ever has been before. Starting at Business Insider on the business side helped me become a better editor: just […]
NPR hires Aspan as financial correspondent
NPR chief business editor Pallavi Gogoi made the following announcement on Thursday: I’m delighted to announce that Maria Aspan is joining NPR as Finance Correspondent. Maria comes to us from Fortune magazine, where she is a senior features writer. In her time at Fortune, Maria has broken news and won numerous awards for her work, […]
