Fortune.com seeks freelance producers

Fortune.com is looking for two full-time freelance producers for May and June, with the opportunity to join our team as a full-time staffer. We are looking for producers who are detail-oriented, organized, and able to manage multiple production assignments during a very busy workday. Experience working in WordPress and other content management systems is a […]

Fortune magazine’s rich design history

J.J. Sedelmaier writes for Print about Fortune magazine’s design history. Sedelmaier writes, “Although it was conceived and prepared while financial times appeared stable, Fortune Magazine was first published soon after the market crash in 1929 by Time Magazine co-founder Henry Luce. Its cover price was set at $1 — the equivalent of more than $15 […]

Fast Company is finalist for Magazine of the Year

Fast Company was named Thursday as one of five finalists for Magazine of the Year by the American Society of Magazine Editors. The National Magazine Awards will be presented on Thursday, May 1, at the New York Marriott Marquis. Bloomberg Businessweek and Money also received two nominations, while Wired received five nominations, including a nomination […]

Why fact checking is important in business journalism

Bethany McLean, a business journalist at Vogue, writes about the importance of fact checking in business journalism on LinkedIn. McLean writes, “I got my job in 1995, just as the last golden age of magazine business journalism, fueled by heavy spending dotcom companies, was beginning. Time Inc, which owns Fortune, was itself just transitioning into […]

Design director leaving Fortune

Tim Leong, the design director at Fortune magazine for the past eight months, is leaving the business magazine to run the design department at Entertainment Weekly. Leong came to Fortune last August from Wired. Both Fortune and Entertainment Weekly are Time Inc. publications. In an email to Talking Biz news, Leong writes, “I’m incredibly excited […]

Fortune.com names news editor, Fortune hires listings editor

Fortune managing editor Andy Serwer sent out the following staff hire announcement on Monday afternoon: We are delighted to annouce the arrival of two key employees to Fortune, Roland Jones and Scott DeCarlo. Both are highly talented and good people too. To paraphrase Dan Patrick over at SI, just our types. Roland Jones will join Fortune.com as […]

Fortune names new publisher

Jed Hartman, group publisher of news and business at Time Inc., made the following announcement on Friday morning: I am pleased to announce that Eric Danetz is the new Publisher of Fortune, overseeing US print, digital sales and marketing. Eric will report to me. Eric comes to us from Defy Media where he has been […]

Primack to co-chair Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech

Fortune managing editor Andy Serwer sent out the following announcement on Tuesday: I am delighted to announce that Dan Primack will become a co-chair of Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech Conference. As we all know Dan does an amazing job putting out his award-winning newsletter Term Sheet, breaking stories online, writing columns in the magazine, and hosting […]

What “no comment” means when covering M&A

Dan Primack of Fortune.com writes about the semantics of “no comment” from a company CEO who may or may not be involved in negotiating a merger or acquisition. Primack writes, “I don’t begrudge anyone their opinion (including about me), but I do feel that there may be a fundamental misunderstanding about what ‘no comment’ usually […]

Biz magazines underperformed industry in 2013

Business magazines brought in fewer ad dollars in 2013 compared to the previous year, underperforming in an industry saw a slight increase in advertising revenue. The 14 business magazines reported ad revenue of $1.33 billion in 2013, down 4.8 percent from 2012, according to data from the Publishers Information Bureau analyzed by Talking Biz news. […]