Lance Lambert assumes associate data editor role at Fortune
Lance Lambert has been hired as the associate data editor at Fortune magazine. He will be responsible for creating data-driven premium newsletters. Lambert previously from August 2017 to August 2019 as a data journalist for Realtor.com. Prior to his time at Realtor.com, he worked as a data journalist for Bloomberg. Lambert graduated from The University […]
Fortune hires deputy editor, three other new staffers
Fortune magazine has hired a deputy editor and three other new staffers as it expands its editorial employee base under its new ownership. Brian O’Keefe is returning to Fortune as deputy editor after a stint as IBM’s editor-in-chief of its Institute for Business Value. Brian was previously a Fortune staffer for 18 years. He will […]
Fortune overhauls its website
Fortune has redesigned and revamped its website as part of its switch to new ownership. It last redid its website in 2014. As part of its transition to independent ownership, it migrated to a version Fortune Media Group completely controls. Fortune’s newly hired technical team — from chief technology officer Jonathan Rivers on down — […]
Kahn exits Bloomberg News for Fortune
Jeremy Kahn has moved on from Bloomberg to rejoin Fortune magazine and cover artificial intelligence and other forms of disruptive technology. He was most recently a technology beat reporter at Bloomberg News, and before that was a writer for Bloomberg Markets magazine. “My career started at Fortune 20 years ago and I am eager to […]
Fortune seeks a social media editor in LA
Fortune, which boasts signature franchises like the Fortune 500, Most Powerful Women in Business and the World’s Greatest Leaders, seeks a Social Media Editor to join its audience engagement team to help lead the development and day-to-day execution of Fortune’s social media and distribution strategy. This editor will collaborate with Fortune’s writers and editors on […]
Morris joins Fortune as staff writer
Fortune has hired David Z. Morris as staff writer. Morris was previously a freelance writer with bylines in Fortune, The Atlantic, Slate, Pacific Standard, and other outlets. He’s also a former social science researcher. His primary areas of interest include race and identity, technology, and culture. Fortune in May raised its cover price, established a […]
Fortune is raising its price, adding a paywall
Fortune magazine is raising its cover price, launching a digital paywall and boosting its conference business, reports Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg of The Wall Street Journal. Trachtenberg reports, “Mr. Murray, a former Wall Street Journal editor, said the digital paywall would be implemented later this year, and that early next year the print magazine would be […]
Fortune’s digital staff votes to join union
Fortune magazine’s digital staff voted 20-3 earlier this week to join the NewsGuild of New York. The staffers issued a statement that read, “We look forward to joining the 41% of the staff already represented by the existing union agreement and working with management to agree on a contract that covers all editorial workers equally.” […]
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 […]
