Journal Sentinel, Fortune win National Headliner Awards

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Rick Barrett has won first place in business news coverage in the 85th National Headliner Awards. The awards are given by The Press Club of Atlantic City. The judges wrote: Hundreds of Wisconsin dairy farms are going under as a glut of milk on the market collapses prices and profits. Rick Barrett’s […]

Union files for secret ballot vote among Fortune digital staff

The Fortune union organizing committee sent the following message to the digital staff of the magazine: Hi friends, We wanted to provide you with an update on our unionization efforts. We’re happy to tell you that the NewsGuild has filed for a secret ballot election at the request of the Fortune union organizing committee. After […]

Fortune’s digital editorial staff seeks union recognition

Fortune magazine’s digital staff is now among the many digital newsrooms to look to unionization in the last year as they continue to face professional uncertainty, reports Kali Hays of WWD. Hays writes, “Staffers are pushing for voluntary recognition with representation from NewsGuild in an effort to ‘safeguard our rights as workers and sustain the […]

Fortune signs deal for its ad technology

Fortune is partnering with Placements.io as it rebuilds its advertising technology stack, reports Sara Guaglione of Publishers Daily. Guaglione writes, “Placements.io will serve as Fortune’s revenue management platform. The Seattle-based start-up works with publishers and ecommerce partners. “The company offers integrations with Salesforce, NetSuite, Google Ad Manager, as well as a proprietary migration automation tool, allowing publishers to […]

Fortune hires Dunn as associate editor

Fortune magazine has hired Katherine Dunn to be an associate editor in London. Dunn has been an associate editor at S&P Global covering LPG in London. Previously, she covered agricultural and commodities markets at the Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones in London and covered business and general news for magazines and newspapers in Canada. “I’ll miss my […]

Washington Post hires Fortune’s Baran to be part of tech team

Washington Post director of video Micah Gelman, deputy directory of video Phoebe Connelly and senior video producer Tom LeGro sent out the following announcement on Thursday: The video department is excited to announce Jonathan Baran is joining The Post as a San Francisco-based reporter/editor as part of our expanded technology team. Jonathan has been a […]

Fortune seeks a senior writer and editor to cover Asia/Europe finance

Fortune seeks an experienced writer and editor, based outside the United States, with expertise covering the business of banking and finance in Asia and Europe as well as the gyrations of the markets there. The job will writing and editing both daily coverage and deeply reported features, for both Fortune.com and Fortune magazine; contributing to […]

Fortune seeks a senior finance and investing editor

Fortune seeks an experienced editor with expertise covering the business of banking and finance as well as the gyrations of the markets. The job will include managing a team of six reporters; editing both daily coverage and deeply reported features, for both Fortune.com and FORTUNE magazine; contributing to newsletters as a writer and editor; and […]

Fortune seeks a senior finance writer in New York

Fortune seeks an experienced writer and reporter to write reported stories and commentary about the banking and finance industries and the financial markets. The job will include writing both daily coverage and long-form features, for both Fortune.com and Fortune magazine; being a featured writer on newsletters; and playing a role in Fortune conferences, both from […]

How Andy Serwer got into biz journalism in B-school

Andy Serwer, the editor in chief of Yahoo Finance, talked with the Goizueta School of Business at Emory University about how he got attracted to business journalism while studying there for his MBA. A story on its website states, “‘The thing that I liked best was reading the Wall Street Journal, on the steps of […]