Lashinsky departing Fortune, will write for Insider/Business Insider
Fortune magazine executive editor Adam Lashinsky is leaving the publication and will write for Insider and Business Insider. Lashinsky will write a regular column and several features a year. He had been Fortune’s executive editor since 2017. Lashinsky joined Fortune in 2001 and has written numerous cover stories on the most important companies and people in Silicon Valley […]
Fortune launches Fortune Connect aimed at mid-tier executives
Fortune is launching an online learning platform and community called Fortune Connect that will target mid-tier, vice president and senior manager executives costing $2,500 per person, reports Kayleigh Barber of Digiday. Barber reports, “The membership to Connect is priced at $2,500 per year per person, with an option for companies with 50 or more approved employees to […]
Fortune, WSJ win Deadline Club awards
Stories from Fortune magazine and The Wall Street Journal were winners in the Deadline Club awards business journalism categories. In the business feature category, the winner was Erika Fry of Fortune for “Epidemic of Fear.” The finalists were Virginia Eubanks of The Guardian US and The Economic Hardship Reporting Project, for “Zombie Debts Are Hounding Struggling […]
Fortune cover signed by Steve Jobs sells for $16k
A Fortune magazine from 1989 featuring Steve Jobs and autographed by him has sold for more than $16,000, reports William Gallagher of Apple Insider. Gallagher writes, “The cover of Fortune magazine’s October 9, 1989 issue featuring Steve Jobs, has been sold at auction for almost 5,000 times its original $3.50 cover price. The cover is autographed […]
ESPN’s Kimes talks about her early career in business journalism
Mina Kimes of ESPN talked with “Full Disclosure” host Roben Farzad about her career, including stints at Bloomberg News and Fortune. At Fortune, she covered markets during the financial crisis. Her first investigative story at Fortune was on Johnson & Johnson. Her story “Bad to the Bone” exposed a company that used cement to repair bone issues […]
At least three biz news organizations received PPP money
At least three business news organizations received loans from the Paycheck Protection Program, according to the data released Monday. Forbes magazine received a loan between $5 million and $10 million, as did Michigan-based Crain Communications, which operates weekly business newspapers in Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit and New York as well as industry publications. KC Crain, president […]
Fortune India gains new publisher
RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group has reached an agreement to publish Fortune in India. A story in The Hindu states, “The Indian edition was first published in 2010 and RPSG has ambitious plans for the magazine, the company said. “Commenting on the development, RPSG Group chairman Sanjiv Goenka said that Fortune India will be a great addition to the group […]
From writing about entrepreneurship to living it
Former Fortune entrepreneurship reporter Polina Marinova writes about leaving the magazine to start her own media company The Profile. Marinova writes, “It may seem insane to quit a great job during a global pandemic that could unleash one of the greatest economic downturns of our lifetime. But you know what’s not insane? “Independence. There is no better […]
Fortune makes June 19 a company holiday
Fortune CEO Alan Murray sent out the following announcement to the staff on Tuesday: All- These have been tough times for many of us. There are a lot of people suffering. There is a lot of tragedy in the world. And we should care about all of it. But it’s important for us all to understand and remember that for […]
Former Fortune columnist “Stanley Bing” dies at 68
Gil Schwartz, the longtime media executive who for two decades wrote columns for Fortune under the pen name “Stanley Bing,” died on Saturday. He was 68. Andrew Nusca of Fortune writes, “For 13 years, the New York City native secretly and successfully skewered office life in the pages of Esquire magazine under the byline ‘Stanley […]
