Fortune hires Vanham as executive editor for Fortune Connect

Peter Vanham has been hired as executive editor for Fortune Connect. Fortune Connect is the magazines membership community for execs. Vanham will oversee education, content and editorial programming. He writes about the global economy and the people who help shape it, contributing stories to Financial Times, Business Insider, Quartz, and World Economic Forum Agenda. Vanham has […]

Fortune taps Malas as data journalist

Fortune magazine has hired Meghan Malas as a data journalist for Fortune Education. She will start in January. Previously, she was working as a freelance writer and researcher for the magazine. She has also interned at Cincinnati Business Courier and Cincinnati CityBeat. She was also a freelance reporter for The News Record in Cincinnati, Ohio. […]

Thier joins Fortune magazine to cover leadership

Jane Thier has joined Fortune magazine to cover all things leadership. She previously was a reporter at Industry Dive. She joined in 2019 as an associate editor of CFO Dive, an online publication and daily newsletter for finance executives. Previously, she has worked at Sauce Magazine in St. Louis as an editorial intern. She has […]

Fortune seeks a health and biotech reporter

Fortune is hiring a creative, enterprising journalist to be our go-to health reporter. It has never been more important to examine all aspects of healthcare, and we’re looking for a reporter who can think critically about the forces shaping health, medicine, biotechnology, and pharmaceuticals and produce stories that stand out. You will: – Report and […]

Fortune hires Estrada to write the CFO Daily

Fortune magazine has hired business journalist Sheryl Estrada as its financial leadership writer. She will oversee the CFO Daily newsletter. Estrada has been at Industry Dive as a reporter for HR Dive. She analyzed trends impacting the human resources industry by covering Congress, federal agencies, industry groups, businesses and executives. Before Industry Dive, Estrada was senior business […]

Fortune’s Wieczner departing for New York Magazine

Fortune reporter Jen Wieczner is leaving the publication for a job at New York Magazine. She will start her new job on April 5 and be a features writer covering business, tech, Wall Street and cryptocurrency. Wieczner covers finance, health care and big business for Fortune, which she joined in 2013 after covering health care and the Affordable Care […]

Sellers of “Most Powerful Women Summit” is leaving Fortune

Pattie Sellers, who has been involved with Fortune magazine for 36 years, including running its “Most Powerful Women Summit,” is leaving the magazine. She and Nina Easton have been running the Summit for Fortune since 2015 after they left the magazine to start their own firm. Here is an excerpt of an interview between Easton and Sellers: […]

Q&A: Fortune’s McGirt talks covering diversity and culture

Ellen McGirt covers race, culture and leadership in a daily column and blog for Fortune called Race Ahead. Last year, the blog won a National Headliner Award. The judges wrote, “Ellen McGirt’s columns are so needed right now, so helpful to a country struggling with issues of race (and gender, and, and, and ..). They […]

Entertainment journalist Feldberg to depart Fortune

Isaac Feldberg, who has been covering the entertainment industry for Fortune, is leaving the magazine on April 24 to continue freelancing. Feldberg is among a number of freelancers who have been cut by the business magazine. Feldberg has been covering the intersection of business and Hollywood, with a focus on overall industry trends and box […]

Marinova departing Fortune to build newsletter as a business

Fortune staff writer Polina Marinova announced Monday that she is leaving the magazine at the end of this week to work on her newsletter The Profile full-time. She has been the main writer for Fortune’s The Term Sheet newsletter. “The goal is to build what is currently a weekly newsletter into a standalone business,” said Marinova in […]